This collection of research contributes to the common goal of looking at the imagination from the novel perspective of its ecological potential. The phenomenological imagination, thus, appears no longer confined in the mere relationship with perception but emerges as the source of the experience of the possible, through which the latent virtualities in the processes of self-individualization that constitute evolving life become visible. According to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, we must turn to this ecological potential of our creative imagination if we want to overcome the current and unsustainable order of the world and life; also avoiding the temptation of dominance and exploitation that constantly emanates from the rationalistic-technological logos inherited from Modernity. Eco-phenomenology built through eco-imagination is the new frontier to be explored and founded to achieve a sustainable future. This volume appeals to students and researchers in phenomenology and related fields.
-FM:Preface , Aknowledgements , ToC.- Part I: From Imaginatio Creatrix
to Eco-Imagination.
Chapter 1: Metaphysics of Ecology and Eco-Imagination:
Entropy, Nature, and Life.
Chapter 2: Imaginatio Creatrix, Moral Sense and
Hesitant Bodies.
Chapter 3: The Relation Between Empathy and Imagination:
Eco-imagination and the Cold Empathy in the Theoretical Frame of Imaginatio
Creatrix.
Chapter 4: Imaging a transition from an instrumental
intentionality to a loving one in the relationship with Earth and Cosmos: the
role of the eco-phenomenology.
Chapter 5: Mapping Imagination and the
Experience of Nature within the Ontopoietic Phenomenology.
Chapter
6: Eco-Imagination in the Phenomenology of Life.- Part 2: Eco-Imagination in
the Perspective of Classic and Contemporary Phenomenology.
Chapter 7: The
Future between Fantasy, Desire, and Hope.
Chapter 8: "The imaginative
Apprehension. The Image-Consciousness in Husserls Phenomenology.
Chapter 9:
"How to get Closer to Reality: Intentionality and Imagination in
Eco-Phenomenological Perspective.
Chapter 10: "Phenomenology of
Eco-imagination. Husserl and Fink toward an Aesthetic of Depresentation.-
Chapter 11: "Image, Function, Conversion: Scheler on Ecological Imagination.-
Chapter 12: Imagining other Humanities: Reassessing the relationship between
phenomenology and anthropology.- Part 3: Openess to Eco-Imagination
Chapter 13: "Nietzsches Absolute Eco-Phenomenology : the Future of Earth as
a Garden ? Some Reflections on Zarathustras Garden, in his Coming Back
to Earth and Life.".
Chapter 14: The Eco-Imagination of Life: Toward a
Material Eco-Phenomenology.
Chapter 15: Instituting Ecological Imaginaries
with Cornelius Castoriadis.
Chapter 16: The Eco-Spiritual Phenomenology:
For a Truly Sustainable Future Elisa.
Chapter 17: Autopoiesis of psychic
perceptions in Heymann Steinthal in the key of a Cassirerian
psychological-symbolic system of transcendental knowledge.
Chapter 18: From
Sense-Giving Anomalies to the Ultimate Frontier: a Liminal Ontopoiesis in
Wittgenstein.
Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired since November 2018. Currently, holder of a teaching contract for an Advanced Seminar in Phenomenology at the University of Macerata (Italy). Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European and Asian Divisions) and Co-editor in Chief of both the Springer series, ANHU and IPOP. Member of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft.
Renato Boccali is Professor at the IULM University of Milan teaching Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. His interests are focused mainly on theories and practices of image in the contemporary world, the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition, the philosophy of translation as well as the relationships between philosophy, arts and literature.
