Spacings--Of Reason and Imagination In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel

Name: Spacings--Of Reason and Imagination In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel
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ISBN: 9780226734415

ISBN-10: 0226734412

ISBN-13: 9780226734415

Edition: 1987

Authors: John Sallis

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By applying the tools of deconstruction to crucial texts of German Idealism, John Sallis reveals the suppressed but essential role of imagination in even the most ambitious attempts to represent pure reason. Sallis focuses on certain operations of "spacing" in metaphysics--textual lapses and leaps in which reason is displaced or suspended or abridged. In the project of establishing priority of reason, such operations can appear only in disguise, and Sallis reveals the play of imagination and metaphor that masks them. Concentrating on what has been called the closure of metaphysics, he examines texts in which the suppression of spacing would be carried out most rigorously, texts in which…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 194
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.80" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

John Sallisis the Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and the author of numerous books, includingThe Verge of PhilosophyandShades—Of Painting at the Limit.

Acknowledgments Occlusion 1. Tunnelings Reason, History, Critique 2. Hoverings Imagination and the Spacing of Truth 3. Enroutings The Eccentricity of Reason 4. Tremorings Withdrawals of the Sublime 5. Endings Imagination, Presentation, Spirit Notes Index