Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses

Herausgeber: Whitehead, Andrew K.; Moeller, Hans-Georg

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses is a rare intercultural inquiry into the conceptions and functions of the imagination in contemporary philosophy. Divided into East Asian, comparative, and post-comparative approaches, it brings together a leading team of philosophers to explore the concepts of the illusory and illusions, the development of fantastic narratives and metaphors, and the use of images and allegories across a broad range of traditions. Chapters discuss how imagination has been interpreted by thinkers such as Zhuangzi, Plato, Confucius, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. By drawing on sources including Buddhist aesthetics, Daoism, and analytic philosophy of mind, this cross-cultural collection shows how the imagination can be an indispensable tool for the comparative philosopher, opening up new possibilities for intercultural dialogue and critical engagement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 241mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781350050136
• ISBN-10: 135005013X
• Artikelnr.: 50205205

Autorenporträt

Hans-Georg Moeller is Professor of Philosophy and Subject Convenor for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme at the University of Macau, China. Andrew K. Whitehead is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Andrew K. Whitehead (Kennesaw State University
USA) PART I: Imagination in Chinese and Japanese Philosophies 1. Truth and Imagination in China: Opposition and Conciliation in the Tradition
Richard John Lynn
University of Toronto
Canada 2. Zhuangzi and the Literary Genre of Fantasy
Nicolas LeJeune
University of Macau
China 3. Visual Zen: The Role of Imagination in Shaping a Zen Aesthetics
Rudi Capra
National University of Ireland
Cork
Ireland PART II: Comparative Studies on Imagination 4. The Imaginary and the Real in Zhuangzi and Plato
May Sim
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester
USA 5. Is There Imagination in Daoism?: Kant
Heidegger
and Classical Daoism: Rethinking Imagination and Thinking in Images
Steven Burik
Singapore Management University
Singapore 6. Daoism
Utopian Imagination and Its Discontents
Ellen Y. Zhang
Hong Kong Baptist University
China PART III: Post-Comparative Conceptions of Imagination in World Philosophy 7. Imagination Beyond the Western Mind
Julia Jansen
KU Leuven
Belgium 8. Time
Habit
and Imagination in Childhood Play
Talia Welsh
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
USA 9. Images of Me in the Roles I Live: An Existentialist Contribution to Confucian Role Ethics
Andrew K. Whitehead
Kennesaw State University
USA 10. Imagination
Formation
and Place: An Ontology
John W. M. Krummel
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
USA 11. Between Truth and Utopia: Philosophy in North America and the Narrowing of the Social-Political Imagination
Gabriel Soldatenko
Kennesaw State University
USA