The Amorous Imagination, livre ebook

In The Amorous Imagination, D. Andrew Yost builds upon Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love to argue that through the interpretive activities of the imagination the Beloved appears to the lover as this Other, not the Other. Weaving together insights from Romantic thought and contemporary French philosophy, Yost describes the distinctive role the imagination plays in individuating another person so that they appear radically unique, special, and unsubstitutable. This radical uniqueness—or haecceitas—emerges out of the lovers' engagement in an "endless hermeneutic," an ongoing process of creative and responsive meaning-making that grounds the lovers' lives in each other and opens them up to new possibilities. All of this, Yost argues, is made possible by the amorous imagination. Drawing from the deep well of love poetry, mythology, philosophy, and literature The Amorous Imagination comes to the provocative conclusion that without the productive power of the imagination love itself could not emerge.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Love, the Imagination, and the Other
1. The Philosophy of Love: A New Opening
2. The Lovers Emerge: Marion, Saturation, and Individuation
3. From The Other to This Other: Individuation and Imagination
4. The Amorous Event and the Endless Hermeneutic
5. Toward a Phenomenology of the Amorous Imagination
6. The Dark Side of Love
Conclusion: Love's Univocity and What's Left Unsaid
Notes
Bibliography
Index