Imagination And Postmodernity

Author : Patrick L. Bourgeois
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739181904

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Imagination and Postmodernity by Patrick L. Bourgeois Pdf

Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with constant reference to Kant’s view of the boundary-limit, it is possible to advance a viable alternative to deconstructing the imagination. Patrick L. Bourgeois puts forth the claim that by refocusing the imagination in the postmodern conversation, a far-reaching contemporary position can be reached that reestablishes the position of the humanities as central against the anti-humanism of deconstruction. This work addresses some of the challenges and problems that emerge in conflicting positions within contemporary philosophy, including a concentration on the role of the imagination in the work of Paul Ricoeur in contrast and in opposition to its role in such postmodern thinkers as Derrida and Lyotard. This treatment requires going back to the role of the imagination in the period of Kant and his immediate followers in order to clarify the various ways of seeing the imagination then and now, for the role today is anticipated in the nineteenth century. Finally, this work, as a creative appropriation of the position of Paul Ricoeur, presents a role for the imagination today that is more encompassing than most thinkers allow for.

Author : Lisann Anders
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527552166

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Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction by Lisann Anders Pdf

We cannot imagine our world without its digital mirror anymore. We communicate to others in mediated ways and even create ourselves through our technological devices, presenting an imagined version of us to the outside world. This book is concerned with precisely this imagination of the self in an increasing digitalized society, going back to the beginning of our digital age, to the peak of postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. Looking at urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the journey of fictional protagonists through the streets of (mostly) New York City reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in the virtual, culminating in violence and destruction. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, this book highlights how an increasingly distanced communication triggers the imagination of violence, making it an insightful read for scholars and aficionados of city literature, postmodernism, and communication alike.

Author : Kearney Richard Kearney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Imagination (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9781474469715

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Poetics of Imagining by Kearney Richard Kearney Pdf

Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an 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 of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeuneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and post-modernism (Vattimo, 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.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134812608

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Author : Elana Gomel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441123954

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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination by Elana Gomel Pdf

Through the lens of science fiction, this book investigates representations of time in postmodernism.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 0816617139

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

The story of imagination is rich and absorbing. Like all species under threat of extinction, the imagination needs to be recorded in terms of its genealogy : its conceptual origins and mutations. Richard Kearney investigates the formative concepts of imagination as they first emerged in the Greek and Biblical traditions, and later through the modern and postmodern periods of Western cultural history.-back cover.

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000539097

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Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination by Efraim Sicher Pdf

Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader.

Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461632931

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Apocalyptic Transformation by Elizabeth K. Rosen Pdf

Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800627369

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Texts Under Negotiation by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

Old assumptions - rational, objectivist, absolutist - have for the most part given way to new outlooks, which can be grouped under the term postmodern. What does this new situation imply for the church and for Christian proclamation? Can one find in this new situation opportunity as well as dilemma? How can central biblical themes - self, world, and community - be interpreted and imagined creatively and concretely in this new context? Our task, Brueggemann contends, is not to construct a full alternative world, but rather to fund - to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. The place of liturgy and proclamation is "a place where people come to receive new materials, or old materials freshly voiced, which will fund, feed, nurture, nourish, legitimate, and authorize a counterimagination of the world". Six exegetical examples of such a new approach to the biblical text are included.

Author : Eleanor Heartney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0998956856

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Postmodern Heretics by Eleanor Heartney Pdf

This redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art" challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship of contemporary art and religion. It explores the Catholic roots of controversial artists and the impact of Catholicism on the 1990s Culture Wars.

Author : Barry Smart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136766640

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Postmodernity by Barry Smart Pdf

At last, a short and authoritative critical introduction to one of the most talked about and most misunderstood concepts of current times. Barry Smart provides a clear and readable discussion for students which also manages to be a shrewd and stimulating contribution to the debate about modernity and postmodernity. Brightly observed and totally tru

Author : Gary Brent Madison
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014201852

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The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity by Gary Brent Madison Pdf

Author : Alan Wilde
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002379348

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Horizons of Assent by Alan Wilde Pdf

Author : Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0860916839

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Not Yet by Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan Pdf

The essays gathered here recommend the work of Ernest Bloch as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation and give specific examples of how Bloch's work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism, collective memory, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life.

Author : Elana Gomel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441178831

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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination by Elana Gomel Pdf

Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporality, literary incarnations can be found in the worlds of science fiction. By engaging classic science-fictional conventions, such as time travel, alternative history, and the end of the world, and by situating these conventions in their cultural context, this book offers a new and fresh perspective on the narratology and cultural significance of time.