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The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays
New York: Oup Usa (2017)
Abstract
The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from the emotional engagement with fictions, to the functioning of metaphor in poetry and in rhetoric, to the concept of beauty in Kant and in Proust, and the nature of the first-person perspective in thought and action.
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The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
The aesthetic engagement with fictions involves emotional responses of various kinds, and it is often urged that there is a paradox in the idea of emotions directed at what one knows to be a fictional situation or character. This paper examines some of the assumptions about imagination and... see more
Seeing and Believing
Metaphor is classed among the “figurative” uses of language, and the idea of “imagery” is associated with metaphor in both literary and philosophical discussions. But why should what is conveyed by metaphor be thought to be any more closely related to imagery or anything experiential than ... see more
Proust and the Limits of the Will
Beginning with the famous theme of “involuntary memory,” the project of Proust’s novel is organized along several axes by the themes of forms of value (metaphysical, epistemic, and erotic or interpersonal) which depend on the surpassing or the evading of the voluntary, or conscious, exerci... see more
The Story of My Life
If narrative is thought to be a privileged form of understanding a human life, what relation does that thought bear to the idea of the “agent’s point of view?” This essay returns to an early source of this debate, the claims for the priority of narrative self-understanding in Alasdair MacI... see more
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