Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination

Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (2012), co-editor of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), and Phenomenological Ethics (A Special Issue of Santalka: Filosofija, 17/3, 2009).

This quite remarkable collection of essays on the productive imagination offers a rich repast well deserving to be savored in multiple sittings. The essays demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of the topic and offer productive efforts themselves to deepen and extend the subject. Kudos to Saulius Geniusas as editor for gathering such a thought-provoking group of authors.

• Introduction / Chapter 1. Günter Zöller: The Productive Power of the Imagination. Kant on the Schematism of the Understanding and the Symbolism of Reason / Chapter 2. Eric S. Nelson: Wilhelm Dilthey and the Formative-Generative Imagination / Chapter 3. Claudio Majolino: Within and Beyond Productive Imagination. A Historical-Critical Inquiry into Phenomenology / Chapter 4. Qingjie James Wang: Two Starting Points in Heidegger’s Critical Interpretation of Kant’s Transcendental Imagination / Chapter 5. Saulius Geniusas: Miki Kiyoshi and the Logic of the Imagination / Chapter 6. Kathleen Lennon: Unpacking ‘the Imaginary Texture of the Real’ with Kant, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty / Chapter 7. Annabelle Dufourcq: The Imaginary Texture of Beings and Its Ethical Implications: Rethinking Realism with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty / Chapter 8. Kwok-ying Lau: Image-picture vs Image-fiction: Is Sartre Ignorant of Productive Imagination? / Chapter 9. Suzi Adams: On Castoriadis and the Social Imaginary Institution of the Real: Her