{"product_id":"poetics-of-imagining-richard-kearney-9780823218721","title":"Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is Imagination? What is the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in a contemporary civilization dominated by the image? How can we reconcile the right to imagine with the right to justice? Are the claims of artistic creativity and moral responsibility compatible? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an extended foreword and an afterword chapter, and fascinating new material on the narrative imagination, \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Imagining: Modern to Post-modern\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critically developed and accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought. It analyses and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life by phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and post-modernism (Vattima, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a coherent and committed approach, which displays his own passionate concern for the claims of imagination in our post-modern world of fragmentation and fracture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is essential reading for those interested in current leading debates on the role of imagining in continental philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, art theory and literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Kearney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823218724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823218721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Richard Kearney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583741784319,"sku":"9780823218721","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1094bf9a-cd62-4493-b537-9fc43ad605a9.jpg?v=1701883301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetics-of-imagining-richard-kearney-9780823218721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}