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THE HYPOCRITICAL IMAGINATION
BETWEEN KANT AND LEVINAS |
| By: |
John Llewellyn |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£39.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415213622 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415213622 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
23 September, 1999 |
| Series: |
Warwick Studies in European Philosophy |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This is a reading of an important philosophical theme: the imagination. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, the author aims to show readers that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. |
| Synopsis: |
For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the attention the imagination has received from major philosophers, remarkably little has been written about the radically different interpretations they have made of it. The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is an outstanding contribution to this vaccuum. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, John Llewelyn takes us on a dazzling tour of the philosophical imagination. He shows us that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. From Kant, Llewelyn shows how the imagination is the common root of all understanding. He contrasts this with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom the imagination plays an ambivalent role both as necessary for and a threat to recognition of the other.John Llewelyn also introduces the importance of the work of Heidegger Schelling, Hegel, Arendt and Derrida on the imagination and what this work can tell us about the relationship between the imagination and ethics, aesthetics and literature. The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is a brilliant reading of a neglected but important philosophical theme and is essential reading for those in contemporary philosophy, art theory and literature. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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