The Hypocritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas

by Llewellyn,John

• ISBN13: 9780415213622
• ISBN10: 0415213622
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Hypocritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinasis an outstanding contribution to this vacuum. Focusing on Kant and Levinas,John Llewelyntakes us on a dazzling tour of the philosophical imagination. He shows us that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. From Kant, Llewelyn shows how the imagination is the common root of all understanding. He contrasts this with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom the imagination plays an ambivalent role both as necessary for and a threat to recognition of the other. John Llewelyn also introduces the importance of the work of Heidegger, Schelling, Hegel, Arendt, and Derrida on the imagination and what this work can tell us about the relationship between the imagination and ethics, aesthetics, and literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xii
Prologue	1	(30)
The hypothesis	1	(3)
The texts	4	(2)
Kant or Levinas	6	(4)
Deponence	10	(2)
`Is' as `as'	12	(3)
Schematizing logical and ontological connectives	15	(7)
The hermeneutic `as'	22	(3)
Reanimation	25	(6)
PART I Back through Kant	31	(88)
Imagination as medial diathesis: Heidegger's reading of Kant	33	(17)
Time and imagination	33	(3)
Schematism, respect and Gelassenheit	36	(5)
The integrity of time	41	(4)
Medial diathesis	45	(3)
Time, space and differance	48	(2)
Constructive imagination as connecting middle: Schelling's reading of Kant	50	(19)
This wondrous faculty	50	(1)
The transcendental imagination	51	(3)
Construction in philosophy	54	(5)
The beginning of the pragmatic history of the mind	59	(1)
The end of the pragmatic history of the mind	60	(5)
Return	65	(2)
The art of philosophy	67	(2)
Antinomy as dialectical imagination in Hegel's critique of Kant	69	(19)
Hegel's `exaltation of Kantianism'	69	(4)
Quantity and discreteness	73	(3)
Dogmatism	76	(5)
Analytical and dialectical opposites	81	(4)
Transcendental illusion	85	(3)
Dialectical imagination as deconstruction: Derrida's reading of Hegel	88	(17)
Science of logic/Science of signature	88	(6)
Glasnostalgia?	94	(3)
Envoi	97	(1)
A point of almost absolute proximity to Hegel	98	(2)
Scription Aufhebung reread	100	(1)
PS	101	(4)
Imadgination as the meaning of being: Sallis on Heidegger and Kant	105	(14)
Distorted sense	105	(5)
What is a thing?	110	(5)
The chiasm of time and space	115	(1)
Higher things	116	(3)
PART II From Levinas	119	(32)
Levinas's critical and hypoCritical diction	121	(18)
Holy `humanism'	121	(3)
Criticism	124	(2)
Prediction	126	(2)
Messianism	128	(2)
Illeity	130	(1)
Criticism and the work of art	131	(2)
Dediction	133	(3)
HypoCrisy	136	(3)
Arendt's critique of political judgement	139	(12)
The political as aesthetic	139	(6)
Political aesthetic as ethic	145	(6)
PART III To the things themselves	151	(84)
Respect as effective affectivity: Michel Henry on Kant	153	(17)
Respect as affect	153	(4)
Criteriological effectuation	157	(7)
Eckhart and life or Kandinsky and world?	164	(6)
Aesthethics	170	(12)
Scarcely more than a dream	170	(1)
Two intentionalities	171	(1)
Test and testimony	172	(2)
Regarding regarding	174	(3)
Wherefore painters? Wherefore phenomenology?	177	(3)
Chiasms	180	(2)
Alethaesthetics: ethics as aesthetics of truth	182	(24)
The renovation of banality	182	(4)
Just words	186	(15)
The `maybe' of enigmagination	201	(1)
Political imagination	202	(4)
Epilogue	206	(29)
Uncommon roots	206	(8)
The rose hedge	214	(8)
A grain of sand	222	(6)
The concord and conflict of faculties	228	(3)
Imagination as hypoCritical creation	231	(4)
Notes	235	(23)
Selective bibliography	258	(11)
Index	269