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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810330103321

Autore

Sartre Jean-Paul <1905-1980.>

Titolo

The imagination / / Jean-Paul Sartre; translated by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2012

ISBN

1-135-76347-X

1-283-84142-8

1-135-76340-2

0-203-72369-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WillifordKenneth

RudraufDavid

Disciplina

248.4

Soggetti

Imagination

Consciousness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Imagination; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Translators' Introduction; The Imagination; Introduction; I The great metaphysical systems; II The problem of the image and the effort of psychologists to find a positive method; III The contradictions of the classical conception; IV Husserl; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Review of L'imagination; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul SartreL'Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of print, this is the first English translation in many years. The Imagination is Sartre's first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness and intentionality that were to later appear in hi