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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810065803321

Autore

Kearney Richard

Titolo

The wake of imagination : ideas of creativity in Western culture / / Richard Kearney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Hutchinson, 1988

ISBN

1-134-81259-0

1-134-81260-4

1-280-19552-5

9786610195527

0-203-43062-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Collana

Problems of modern European thought

Disciplina

128/.3

Soggetti

Imagination in literature

Imagination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Imagination Now; The Hebraic Imagination; The Hellenic Imagination; The Medieval Imagination; The Transcendental Imagination; The Existentialist Imagination I;  Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; The Existentialist Imagination II; Sartre; The Parodic Imagination; Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now?; Conclusion: After Imagination?; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.