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Hi all,

I know its been a long time since I posted. Lots happened. Got very sick for several months. Finished scanning all but two books and one article to go.
Got an ibook G4 laptop from my friends, way cool! After 20 years, am leaving my desktop, yeah.
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I will be doing iListen training soon to master it. Well, more later...

Ethics of Imagination ... source of inspiration

As a boy seeing Goethe's insightful ballad made into a famous cartoon that marked me truly:



Der Zauberlehrling
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1797

Hat der alte Hexenmeister
Sich doch einmal wegbegeben!
Und nun sollen seine Geister
Auch nach meinem Willen leben.
Seine Wort und Werke
Merkt ich und den Brauch,
Und mit Geistesstärke
Tu ich Wunder auch.

Walle! walle
Manche Strecke,
Daß, zum Zwecke,
Wasser fließe
Und mit reichem, vollem Schwalle
Zu dem Bade sich ergieße.
Und nun komm, du alter Besen,
Nimm die schlechten Lumpenhüllen!
Bist schon lange Knecht gewesen:
Nun erfülle meinen Willen!
Auf zwei Beinen stehe,
Oben sei ein Kopf,
Eile nun und gehe
Mit dem Wassertopf!

Walle! walle
Manche Strecke,
Daß, zum Zwecke,
Wasser fließe
Und mit reichem, vollem Schwalle
Zu dem Bade sich ergieße.
Seht, er läuft zum Ufer nieder!
Wahrlich! ist schon an dem Flusse,
Und mit Blitzesschnelle wieder
Ist er hier mit raschem Gusse.
Schon zum zweiten Male!
Wie das Becken schwillt!
Wie sich jede Schale
Voll mit Wasser füllt!

Stehe! stehe!
Denn wir haben
Deiner Gaben
Vollgemessen! -
Ach, ich merk es! Wehe! wehe!
Hab ich doch das Wort vergessen!
Ach, das Wort, worauf am Ende
Er das wird, was er gewesen!
Ach, er läuft und bringt behende!
Wärst du doch der alte Besen!
Immer neue Güsse
Bringt er schnell herein,
Ach, und hundert Flüsse
Stürzen auf mich ein!

Nein, nicht länger
Kann ichs lassen:
Will ihn fassen!
Das ist Tücke!
Ach, nun wird mir immer bänger!
Welche Miene! welche Blicke!
O, du Ausgeburt der Hölle!
Soll das ganze Haus ersaufen?
Seh ich über jede Schwelle
Doch schon Wasserströme laufen.
Ein verruchter Besen,
Der nicht hören will!
Stock, der du gewesen,
Steh doch wieder still!

Willst am Ende
Gar nicht lassen?
Will dich fassen,
Will dich halten
Und das alte Holz behende
Mit dem scharfen Beile spalten!
Seht, da kommt er schleppend wieder!
Wie ich mich nur auf dich werfe,
Gleich, o Kobold, liegst du nieder;
Krachend trifft die glatte Schärfe.
Wahrlich! brav getroffen!
Seht, er ist entzwei!
Und nun kann ich hoffen,
Und ich atme frei!

Wehe! wehe!
Beide Teile
Stehn in Eile
Schon als Knechte
Völlig fertig in die Höhe!
Helft mir, ach! ihr hohen Mächte!
Und sie laufen! Naß und nässer
Wirds im Saal und auf den Stufen:
Welch entsetzliches Gewässer!
Herr und Meister, hör mich rufen! -
Ach, da kommt der Meister!
Herr, die Not ist groß!
Die ich rief, die Geister,
Werd ich nun nicht los.

"In die Ecke,
Besen! Besen!
Seids gewesen!
Denn als Geister
Ruft euch nur, zu seinem Zwecke,
Erst hervor der alte Meister."

...Just came in...

Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the imagination
Jeanne Evans


This book is now on my shelf. Last one, now to celebrate before reading some 36,000 pages. :-)

Blog site name...

A reader of my blog asked why Imagnatio was chosen as its name. I will let Michael Beaney in Thought and Experience: Themes in the Philosophy of Mind offer a brief explanation:

Etymologically, 'imagination' derives from the Latin word imaginatio, while 'fantasy' and 'fancy' derive from the ancient Greek term phantasia. In the works of Plato and Aristotle, phantasia meant the power of apprehending or experiencing phantasmata ('phantasms'). Arguably, what phantasma originally meant was an 'appearance' - an occurrence of something appearing to be such-and-such, as when the sun looks to us as being only a foot across. But even in Aristotle's work, it was also used to mean 'mental image', which is how it was subsequently understood. Phantasia came to be translated by imaginatio and phantasma by imago in Latin, preserving the etymological and conceptual connection here, although the original Greek terms were also used in their transliterated form (i.e. employing the Latin rather than Greek alphabet, as I have done here) alongside their Latin correlates. In the seventeenth century, as Latin lost its place as the official language of philosophy, the terms that replaced phantasia and imaginatio in English were 'fantasy' - or 'fancy' or 'phantasy' - and 'imagination'. In this initial period of English usage, there seems to have been no established distinction between the two terms. In his Leviathan of 1651, for example, Hobbes claimed that what 'the Latins call imagination ... the Greeks call ... fancy' (I, ii). By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the distinction between fantasy and imagination had more or less settled down into its current sense. In his Dissertations Moral and Critical of 1783, James Beattie wrote: 'According to the common use of words, Imagination and Fancy are not perfectly synonymous. They are, indeed, names for the same faculty; but the former seems to be applied to the more solemn, and the latter to the more trivial, exertions of it. A witty author is a man of lively Fancy; but a sublime poet is said to possess a vast imagination' (quoted in Engell 1981, 172).

Reading list order, by year, 1st draft

Akenside, Mark. The Pleasures of Imagination. London: R. Dodsley, 1744.

Ruskin, John. Modern painters. Sunnyside: Orpington, Kent, G. Allen, 1883.

Gore, Willard Clark. The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume. Chicago: ??, 1902.

Leeming, Benjamin Christopher. Imagination, Mind's Dominant Power. New York: The M. H. Schroeder company, 1926.

Hargreaves, Herbert Lyde. The Faculty of Imagination. Cambridge: The University press, 1927.

Lowes, John Livingston. The Road to Xanadu: a study in the ways of the imagination. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

Bundy, Murray Wright. The Theory of Imagination in Classical and Mediaeval thought. Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1927.

Mirandola, Pico della, and Giovanni Francesco; Trans. Harry Caplan. On the Imagination. London: Oxford University press, 1930.

Babbitt, Irving. On Being Creative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

Welch, Livingston. Imagination and Human Nature. London: K. Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Company. Ltd., 1935.

Sherwood, Margaret Pollock. Coleridge's Imaginative Conception of the Imagination. Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1937.

Barrett, Mary Constance. An Experimental Study of the Thomistic Concept of the Faculty of Imagination. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1941.

Gordon, Kate. Studies in the Theory of Imagination. Los Angeles: Stanford University Press, 1941.

Goetz, Mary Dorothea. A Study of Ruskin's Concept of the Imagination. Washington: Catholic University of America, 1947.

Sartre, Jean Paul. The Psychology of Imagination. Trans. Jonathan Webber. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948.

Osborn, Alexander Faickney. Your Creative Power: how to use imagination. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1948.

Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. London: Hutchinson’s
University Library, 1949.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong. Coleridge on Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton, 1950.

Willey, Basil. Coleridge on Imagination and Fancy. London: Proceedings of the British Academy, 1951.

McKellar, Peter. Imagination and Thinking: a psychological analysis. New York: Basic Books, 1957.

Baker, James Volant. The Sacred River: Coleridge's theory of the imagination. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957.

Collingwood, Robin George, and. The Principles of Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Gupta, Subodh Chandra Sen. Towards a Theory of the Imagination. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. The Imagination as a Means of Grace: Locke and the aesthetics of romanticism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

Chiari, Joseph. Realism and Imagination. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960.

Furlong, E. J. Imagination. London: Allen & Unwin, 1961.

Williams, J. P. Sartre; Trans. with introd. by Forrest. Imagination: a psychological critique. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962.

Levi, Albert William. Literature, Philosophy and the Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962.

Rugg, Harold Ordway. Imagination. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Makkreel, Rudolf Adam. Wilhelm Dilthey's Concept Of The Imagination, Thesis (Ph.D.). New York: Colombia Univeristy, 1966.

Ehrenzweig, Anton. The Hidden Order of Art: a study in the psychology of artistic imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Wilbanks, Jan. Hume's Theory of Imagination. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968.

Hart, Ray Lee. Unfinished Man and the Imagination: toward an ontology and a rhetoric of revelation. New York: Herder and Herder, 1968.

Kennedy, Wilma L. The English heritage of Coleridge of Bristol, 1798. Hamden: Archon Books, 1969.

Sprigge, Timothy L. S. Facts, Words and Beliefs. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1970.

McVickar, Polly. Imagination: key to human potential. Washington: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1972.

Alves, Rubem A. Tomorrow's Child: imagination, creativity, and the rebirth of culture.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Mott, Jacolyn A. Creativity and imagination. Mankato: Creative Education, Inc., 1973.

Baron, Theodule Armand Ribot; Trans. by Albert H. N. Essay on the Creative Imagination. New York: Arno Press, 1973.

Scruton, Roger. Art and Imagination: a study in the philosophy of mind. London: Harper and Row, 1974.

Chambliss, J. J. Imagination and Reason in Plato, Aristotle, Vico, Rousseau, and Keats. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1974.

Wilner, Eleanor. Gathering the Winds: visionary imagination and radical transformation of self and society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Whitaker, Stephen P. Imagination and Fancy in Nineteenth Century Literature. Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1975.

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm. The Imaginative Faculty: a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, May 26th, 1893. Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1975.

Warnock, Mary. Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Casey, Edward S. Imagining: a phenomenological study. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.

Horine, Henry Corbin; trans. by Ruth. Mundus Imaginalis: or, The imaginary and the imaginal. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1976.

Donoghue, Denis. The Sovereign Ghost: studies in imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Mayne, Zachary. Two Dissertations Concerning Sense and the Imagination, 1728. New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.

Kearney, Richard. The Phenomenology of Imagination, Thesis (M.A.). Ireland: University College Dublin, 1977.

Hill, S. T. Coleridge; edited by John Spencer. Imagination in Coleridge. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978.

Bronowski, Jacob. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Shackle, G. L. S. Imagination and the Nature of Choice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979.

Avens, Roberts. Imagination is Reality: western nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield, and Cassirer. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1980.

Engell, James. The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Avens, Roberts. Imaginal Body: para-Jungian reflections on soul, imagination, and death. Washington: University Press of America, 1982.

Hohler, T.P. Imagination and Reflection: intersubjectivity: Fichte's Grundlage of 1794. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982.

Sloan, Douglas. Insight Imagination: the emancipation of thought and the modern world. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Pruyser, Paul W. The Play of the Imagination: toward a psychoanalysis of culture. New York: International Universities Press, 1983.

McFarland, Thomas. Originality and Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

O'Connell, Robert J. Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1986.

McCleary, Richard C. Imagination's Body. Pittsburgh: University Press of America, 1986.

Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Murray, edited by Edward L. Imagination and Phenomenological Psychology. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987.

Novitz, David. Knowledge, Fiction and Imagination. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Sallis, John. Spacings of Reason and Imagination in Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Wedin, Michael V. Mind and Imagination in Aristotle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Watson, Gerard. Phantasia in Classical Thought. Galway: Galway University Press, 1988.

Leask, Nigel. The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge's Critical Thought. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Kearney, Richard. The Wake of Imagination: toward a postmodern culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Gallant, edited by Christine. Coleridge's Theory of Imagination Today. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

Gouwens, David J. Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Chittick, William C. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's metaphysics of imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Makkreel, Rudolf A. Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: the hermeneutical import of the Critique of judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

White, Alan R. The Language of Imagination. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1990.

Murray, J.M. Cocking ; edited with introduction by Penelope. Imagination: a Study in the History of Ideas. London: Routledge, 1991.

Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Imagining: from Husserl to Lyotard. London: Harper Collins Academic, 1991.

Collins, Christopher. The Poetics of The Mind's eye: literature and the psychology of imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Casey, Edward S. Spirit and Soul: essays in philosophical psychology. 2nd ed. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1991.

Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination: sum and substance. Savage,
Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.

Mehta, Uday Singh. The Anxiety of Freedom: imagination and individuality in Locke's political thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Miller, Cecilia. Giambattista Vico: imagination and historical knowledge. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Hollo, Verena Kast ; trans. by Anselm. Imagination as Space of Freedom: dialogue between the ego and the unconscious. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1993.

Lewry, Robert Kilwardby; edited by P. Osmund. On Time and Imagination (De tempore ; De spiritu fantastico). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Banwart, Mary. Hume's Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

Freydberg, Bernard. Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Gibbons, Sarah L. Kant's Theory of Imagination: bridging gaps in judgement and experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rundell, edited by Gillian Robinson and John. Rethinking Imagination: culture and creativity. London: Routledge, 1994.

Pyle, Forest. The Ideology of Imagination: subject and society in the discourse of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Evans, Jeanne. Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Imagination. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995.

Sepper, Dennis L. Descartes's Imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Irwin, Lee. Visionary Worlds: the making and unmaking of reality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Chodorow, C. G. Jung; edited with introduction by Joan. Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Sontag, Frederick. Truth and Imagination: the universes within. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.

Sallis, John. Force of Imagination: the sense of the elemental. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Llewelyn, John. The Hypocritical Imagination: between Kant and Levinas. London: Routledge, 2000.

Edelman, Gerald M. A Universe of Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination: the vibrant flux of our existence. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Ravenscroft, Gregory Currie and Ian. Recreative Minds: imagination in philosophy and psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Bates, Jennifer Ann. Hegel's Theory of Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Nauta, Lodi and, and Pätzold, Detlev. Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2004.

Steeves, James B. Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of imagination. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004.

Lyons, John D. Before Imagination: embodied thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Freydberg, Bernard. Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical reason. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Small poster sitting atop the imagination bookcase...

This is Leo's famous untested* flying machine as a model done by someone with my added quote. This was created to inspire me during my writing.

*Recently on a PBS show a few folks figure out how to make it work, cool!

List is now finished for this year.

Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the imagination
Jeanne Evans
1995


This book is now on order, and will be the last for this year. I am now ready to start reading. :-)