A01=Jodie Lee Heap
Author_Jodie Lee Heap
Category=QD
Critical Theory
Embodiment
Enlightenment
Epistemology
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German Idealism
German Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Imagination
Ontology
Social Philosophy
Product details
- ISBN 9781538144268
- Weight: 599g
- Dimensions: 163 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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By engaging with the notions of indeterminacy and embodiment within the writings of Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Cornelius Castoriadis, this book addresses and brings to the fore the significance of the creative imagination as an ontological source of human creation. Principally inspired by Castoriadis’ revolutionary elucidation of the imagination and the imaginary, this book actively contributes to this neglected line of enquiry by exposing deep lines of continuity and rupture both within and between the writings of Kant, Fichte, and Castoriadis. Beginning with Kant’s hesitation in describing the productive imagination as a creative and embodied power of the soul, this book traces these lines of continuity and rupture through Fichte’s innovative depiction of the creative imagination as an ontological power of creation and through Castoriadis’ radical extension of this idea into the social-historical realm. Given the notions of indeterminacy and embodiment actively inform these lines of continuity and of rupture, this book contributes to the landscape of thinking by proposing the creative imagination must be envisaged an embodied power of the human soul.
Jodie Lee Heap is associate of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
