Imagining: A Phenomenological Study (Studies in Continental Thought)

Imagining A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey

A classic firsthand account of the lived character of imaginative experience.

"This scrupulous,
lucid study is destined to become a touchstone for all future writings on imagination." — Library Journal

"Casey's work is doubly valuable
— for its major substantive contribution to our understanding of a significant mental activity, as well as for its exemplary presentation of the method of phenomenological analysis." — Contemporary Psychology

"... an important addition to phenomenological philosophy and to the humanities generally."
— Choice

"... deliberately and consistently phenomenological,
oriented throughout to the basically intentional character of experience and disciplined by the requirement of proceeding by way of concrete description....
[Imagining] is an exceptionally well-written work." — International Philosophical Quarterly

Drawing on his own experiences of imagining, Edward S.
Casey describes the essential forms that imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, Casey shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a characteristic freedom of mind. A new preface places Imagining within the context of current issues in philosophy and psychology.

[use one Casey bio for both Imagining and Remembering]
Edward S. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Getting Back into Place:
Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (Indiana University Press) and The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History.

Studies in Continental Thought — John Sallis, general editor

Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction The Problematic Place of Imagination Part One: Preliminary Portrait Examples and First Approximations Imagining as Intentional Part Two Detailed Descriptions Spontaneity and Controlledness Self-Containedness and Self-Evidence Indeterminacy and Pure Possibility Part Three:
Phenomenological Comparisons Imagining and Perceiving:
Continuities Imagining and Perceiving: Discontinuities Part Four:
The Autonomy of Imagining The Nature of Imaginative Autonomy The Significance of Imaginative Autonomy