Creative Imagination

Jodie Lee Heap is associate of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Elegantly written and illuminating, Jodie Lee Heap’s The Creative Imagination explores the way that the imagination is treated in the monumental philosophical works of Kant, Fichte and Castoriadis. As she does this, Heap probes and dissects with great insight the many sides of the imagination: productive, creative, synthetic, antithetical, introspective, social, intuitive, spontaneous, determinate, formative and figurative.

• Foreword / John RundellPreface: The Indeterminacy of Human Creation.First Movement: The Unknown Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Immanuel Kant.Chapter One: The Unknown Seed of Indeterminacy.Chapter Two: The Productive Imagination — A Power of Synthesis A Priori. Chapter Three: The Productive Imagination — A Power of Representing.Chapter Four: The Productive Imagination — A Determinate Power of Exhibition.Chapter Five: The Productive Imagination — An Indeterminate Power of Exhibition.Chapter Six: The Productive Imagination — The Act of Creation.Second Movement: The Absolutely Incomprehensible Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.Chapter Seven: The Absolutely Incomprehensible Seed of Indeterminacy.Chapter Eight: The Absolutely Creative Imagination.Chapter Nine: The Creative Imagination.Third Movement: The Radical Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Cornelius Castoriadis.Chapter Ten: The Radical Seed of Indeterminacy.Chapter Eleven: The Radical Imagination.Chapter Twelve: The Radical Imaginary.Chapter Thirteen: The Creative Imaginary.Chapter Fourteen: The Creative Imagination.Fourth Movement: The Embodied Seed of Indeterminacy.