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Lectures on Imagination
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Lectures on Imagination
Sinopsis
Ricoeur8217stheory of productive imagination in
previously unpublished lectures. The eminent
philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the
imagination. These previously unpublished
lectures offer Ricoeur8217smost significant and
sustained reflections on creativity as he builds
a new theory of imagination through close
examination, moving from Aristotle, Pascal,
Spinoza, Hume, and Kant to Ryle, Price,
Wittgenstein, Husserl, and Sartre. These
thinkers, he contends, underestimate
humanity8217screative capacity. While the
Western tradition generally views imagination as
derived from the reproductive example of the
image, Ricoeur develops a theory about the
mind8217spower to produce new realities.
Modeled most clearly in fiction, this productive
imagination, Ricoeur argues, is available across
conceptual domains. His theory provocatively
suggests that we are not constrained by existing
political, social, and scientific structures.
Rather, our imaginations have the power to break
through our conceptual horizons and remake the
world.
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Ricoeur8217stheory of productive
imagination in previously unpublished lectures.
The
eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to
the imagination. These previously
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unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur8217smost
significant and sustained reflections
on creativity as he builds a new theory of
imagination through close examination, moving
from Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant
to Ryle, Price, Wittgenstein, Husserl, and
Sartre. These thinkers, he contends,
underestimate humanity8217screative capacity.
While the Western tradition generally views
imagination as derived from the reproductive
example of the image, Ricoeur develops a theory
about the mind8217spower to produce
new realities. Modeled most clearly in fiction,
this productive imagination, Ricoeur argues, is
available across conceptual domains. His theory
provocatively suggests that we are not
constrained by existing political, social, and
scientific structures. Rather, our imaginations
have the power to break through our conceptual
horizons and remake the world.