Patrick L. Bourgeois

Imagination and Postmodernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, focusing on the central role of the imagination in contemporary philosophy, addresses challenges and problems that emerge today in conflicting positions, 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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780739181898
• ISBN-10: 0739181890
• Artikelnr.: 37667213

Autorenporträt

Patrick L. Bourgeois is William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University since 1968. He has authored or co-authored nine books, among which are: Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Ethics and Postmodernity (2001); The Extension of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics (1975); The Religious Within Experience and Existence: A Phenomenological Investigation (1990); Mead and Merleau-Ponty: A Common Vision, with Rosenthal, (1991); and Thematic Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism, with Rosenthal (1983).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: The Imagination: Its Challenge to Philosophy Today
Chapter 2: The Transcendental Productive Imagination Chapter 3: The
Imagination at the Boundary: Phenomenological Variations and Pragmatism
Chapter 4: Imagination and Postmodernity Chapter 5: Imagination and
Postmodernity II: Narrative Bibliography