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Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination (Philosophy and Literary Theory)

By Richard Kearney

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
1573926108, 9781573926102, 0391037986, 9780391037984
LCC
BD232 .K39 1995
Open Library ID
OL1093821M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13953501 bytes)
Pages
269\269
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Kearney addresses one of the key issues of modern European thought - how the crisis of values (ethics) relates to the crisis of imagination (poetics). Through a series of in-depth studies of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, and others, Kearney explores the ways in which Continental philosophy, in both its modern and post-modern guises, has endeavoured to respond to these twin crises. Some studies focus on the dilemma of individual imagination faced with the fragmentation of inherited concepts of truth, God, or the good. Others concentrate on conflicts internal to the social imagination of our times - eg: ideology versus utopia, myth versus critique, tradition versus reason, modernity versus post-modernity. Kearney also applies these philosophical disputes to a number of post-modern texts in literature and to painting and politics.

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