Philosophy, Art, and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis
Series: - Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume: 21
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John Sallis has been at the cutting edge of the Continental philosophical tradition for almost half a century, and it is largely due to his contributions that we have come to understand “Continental” as designating an original philosophical, not a geographical, tradition. His work, with its uncommon scholarly rigor, has come to define the best of that tradition and to expand its horizons in creative ways through a genuine philosophical imagination.
The essays gathered here are dedicated to assessing Sallis’ contribution and to indicating some of the ways in which his works might shape the future of philosophy.
The essays gathered here are dedicated to assessing Sallis’ contribution and to indicating some of the ways in which his works might shape the future of philosophy.
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James Risser, Ph.D. (1978), Duquesne University, is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. His main research areas are hermeneutics, aesthetics, and ancient Greek philosophy.
Foreword On Leaving Footprints: Some Remarks on the Legacy of John Sallis
Dennis J. Schmidt
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
James Risser and Walter Brogan
part 1
Directions within Greek Philosophy
1 “Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens” John Sallis in His Elements
Michael Naas
2 Philosophy and Monstrosity, an Ode to Artemis
Sara Brill
3 Boundless Images John Sallis and the Ancient Gods
Claudia Baracchi
4 “Shaggy, Lustful, Partly Animal” John Sallis on Plato’s Symposium
S. Montgomery Ewegen
5 The Stretch between Limitless Flow and Absolute Stasis Figuring the Flow of Nature and the Determinacy of Being
Walter Brogan
part 2
On Art and Translation
6 Freeing the Eye
Alejandro A. Vallega
7 Interpreting the “Sense” of Art
James Risser
8 To Speak of Art … at the Limit
Jeffrey Powell
9 On Translating John Sallis
Drew A. Hyland
part 3
Concerns of Philosophy
10 On the Way to the Sensible Disrupting Simple Directions
Peg Birmingham
11 John Sallis’ Liminal Phenomenology
Daniela Vallega-Neu
12 Elemental Ecology Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis
Jason M. Wirth
13 Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point Sallis and the Future of Philosophy
Bernard Freydberg
Response
John Sallis
Index
Dennis J. Schmidt
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
James Risser and Walter Brogan
part 1
Directions within Greek Philosophy
1 “Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens” John Sallis in His Elements
Michael Naas
2 Philosophy and Monstrosity, an Ode to Artemis
Sara Brill
3 Boundless Images John Sallis and the Ancient Gods
Claudia Baracchi
4 “Shaggy, Lustful, Partly Animal” John Sallis on Plato’s Symposium
S. Montgomery Ewegen
5 The Stretch between Limitless Flow and Absolute Stasis Figuring the Flow of Nature and the Determinacy of Being
Walter Brogan
part 2
On Art and Translation
6 Freeing the Eye
Alejandro A. Vallega
7 Interpreting the “Sense” of Art
James Risser
8 To Speak of Art … at the Limit
Jeffrey Powell
9 On Translating John Sallis
Drew A. Hyland
part 3
Concerns of Philosophy
10 On the Way to the Sensible Disrupting Simple Directions
Peg Birmingham
11 John Sallis’ Liminal Phenomenology
Daniela Vallega-Neu
12 Elemental Ecology Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis
Jason M. Wirth
13 Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point Sallis and the Future of Philosophy
Bernard Freydberg
Response
John Sallis
Index
This book would be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the area of contemporary Continental philosophy.