The imagination is a decisive, if underappreciated, theme in German
thought since Kant. In this rigorous historical and textual analysis,
Christopher Yates challenges an oversight of traditional readings by
presenting the first comparative study of F.W.J. Schelling and Martin
Heidegger on this theme. By investigating the importance of the
imagination in the thought of Schelling and Heidegger, Yates' study
argues that Heidegger's later, more poetic, philosophy cannot be
understood properly without appreciating Schelling's central
importance for him. A key figure in post-Kantian German Idealism,
Schelling's penetrating attention to the creative character of thought
remains undervalued. Capturing the essential manner in which
Heidegger's ontology and Schelling's idealism intersect, The Poetic
Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling likewise presents an
introduction to better understanding Heidegger's later thought. It
reveals how his engagement with Schelling encouraged Heidegger to
recover and refine the imagination as a poetic, as opposed to
reductive and dogmatic, collaborator in the life of truth. Tracing the
theme of imagination in new readings of these major thinkers, Yates'
study not only acknowledges Schelling's provocative place in
post-Kantian German Idealism, but demonstrates as well the
significance of Schelling's philosophical focus and style for
Heidegger's own concentration on the creative vocation of human
artistry and thought.
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9781472513526
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2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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