Hypocritical Imagination Between Kant and Levinas

The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is a brilliant reading of a neglected but important philosophical theme: the imagination. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, John Llewelyn takes us on a dazzling tour of the philosophical imagination, showing that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. From Kant, Llewelyn shows how the imagination is the common root of all understanding. He contrasts this with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom the imagination plays an ambivalent role both as necessary for and a threat to recognition of the other. He also highlights the significance of the work of Heidegger Schelling, Hegel, Arendt and Derrida on the imagination, and what this work can tell us about the relationship between the imagination and ethics, aesthetics and literature.Llewelyn, John is the author of 'Hypocritical Imagination Between Kant and Levinas' with ISBN 9780415213615 and ISBN 0415213614.