Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: The Imagination: Its Challenge to Philosophy Today
Chapter 2: The Transcendental Productive Imagination
Chapter 3: The Imagination at the Boundary: Phenomenological Variations and Pragmatism
Chapter 4: Imagination and Postmodernity
Chapter 5: Imagination and Postmodernity II: Narrative
Bibliography

About the Author

Patrick L. Bourgeois is William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University since 1968. He has authored or co-authored nine books, among which are: Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Ethics and Postmodernity (2001); The Extension of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics (1975); The Religious Within Experience and Existence: A Phenomenological Investigation (1990); Mead and Merleau-Ponty: A Common Vision, with Rosenthal, (1991); and Thematic Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism, with Rosenthal (1983).

Reviews

Bourgeois proposes a trenchant rethinking of the postmodern imagination, guided by Ricoeur but also passing through a diverse post-Kantian landscape of German idealism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and deconstructionism. The result is an ambitious new philosophy of the imagination at the boundary-limits of reason and an opening to the possibility of an invigorated postmodern humanism.
*John Wall, Rutgers University*