Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198263317 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maxime Valcourt Blouin said Insightful and interesting, but also frustrating and problematic. This work by M. Jamie Ferreira is one of the two main books that have been written so far on the topic of the imagination in Kierkegaard's thought (the other being "Kierkegaard's dialectic of the imagination", by David Gouwens - a dissertation has also been written by Bryan Yorton). While the other book mostly considered the imagination in Kierkegaard by describing it's workings in eac
The metaphor of a "leap of faith" is probably the element most widely recognized as a distinctive characteristic of a "Kierkegaardian" account of the transition to religious faith. Both in popular and scholarly circles this "leap" has usually been understood in terms of an act of will-power. Exploring the relation between passion and paradox in several of Kierkegaard's accounts of selfhood, and developing an account of transitional choice in which imagination is a constitutive element, Ferreira elaborates an understanding of the faith-transition in terms of such imaginative activities as "suspension," "synthesis," and "engagement." The analysis of imaginative activity in these ethical and religious transitions has, moreover, implications which go beyond Kierkegaard scholarship, for it bears importantly not only on other "conversion" accounts, but also on the question of transitions to alternative or incommensurable conceptual frameworks in general.. Challenging such a volitionalist view, as well as some current alternatives to it which see instead only an ineffable "miracle" of grace, Ferreira argues that Kierkegaard's striking appreciation of a variety of roles of imagination supports a reconceptualization of the "leap" or "decision" in terms of a reorienting shift in perspective, an imaginative revisioning