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Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern

Richard Kearney

"Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) . . . superb and highly recommended." -The Midwest Book Review

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1998
  • Pages: 260
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9780823218721
  • Categories: Movements - HumanismHistory & Surveys - ModernMovements - Phenomenology

About the Author

Kearney, Richard: - Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding editor of the Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades. His most relevant books on this subject include Strangers, Gods and Monsters (2001), Postnationalist Ireland (1998), Hosting the Stranger (2012), Phenomenologies of the Stranger (2010), Imagination Now (2019), and Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (2021).

Praise for this book

Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) . . . superb and highly recommended.-- "--The Midwest Book Review"