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Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental
John Sallis
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Paperback. Discusses logic beyond the limits of reason Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 302 pages, 8 color illus. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 477.
The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imagination, John Sallis sets out to unsettle the traditional conception of logic, to mark its limits, and, beyond these limits, to launch another, exorbitant logic—a logic of imagination. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, as well as developments in modern logic and modern mathematics, Sallis shows how a logic of imagination can disclose the most elemental dimensions of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253005908
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V9780253005908
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About John Sallis
John Sallis is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of Force of Imagination (IUP, 2000), On Translation (IUP, 2002), and Topographies (IUP, 2006).
Reviews for Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental
Mature, poetic, erudite, fantastical — John Sallis' new book is a concrescence of all these, appropriately so, given the characterization therein of imagination as a gathering force which allows the simultaneity of disparates and eludes the logic of non-contradiction.
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