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The Imagination

Pocket
Engelsk
The Imagination
The Imagination
  • Forfatter: Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 240
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780415776196
  • Utgivelsesår: 2012
  • Bidragsyter: Sartre, Jean-Paul
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¿No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.'' - Jean-Paul Sartre

L¿Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of print, this is the first English translation in many years. The Imagination is Sartre¿s first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness and intentionality that were to later appear in his master works and be so influential in the course of twentieth-century philosophy.

Sartre begins by criticising philosophical theories of the imagination, particularly those of Descartes, Leibniz and Hume, before establishing his central thesis. Imagination does not involve the perception of ¿mental images¿ in any literal sense, Sartre argues, yet reveals some of the fundamental cap