Tuesday, January 30, 2018

An interesting new essay from Russia


Understanding Imagination: Towards a New Humanitarian Paradigm


ALEKSANDR SAUTKIN

Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia

Key words: imagination, image, sensual world, anthropological traject, mundus imaginalis.

Summary
The article deals with the problem of imagination interpreted in a broad historical and philosophical
perspective. It is shown that European metaphysics have for a long time neglected imagination in favour of reason. In contrast to this position, the necessity of considering imagination in a new way is postulated – as a leading creative force of the human being. In this connection, the ideas of Henri Corbin and Gilbert Durand are analysed as a possible source of new ways of humanitarian discourse.

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