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"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?"
Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.
Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 237
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Imprint: Paul Dry Books
Publication Date:
08 February 2022
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781589881617
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
Eva Brann was
a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland,
where she taught for more than sixty years. She holds degrees from Brooklyn
College and Yale University and is a recipient of the National Humanities
Medal. Feigning is her thirteenth
book from Paul Dry Books. Her other books include Pursuits of Happiness, Iron Filings or Scribblings, How
to Constitute a World, Doublethink / Doubletalk, Then & Now, Un-Willing,
The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open
Secrets / Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic, and Homeric Moments.
Preface: The Project’s Words
A. Mental Imagery
B. Copy
C. Original
D. Chapter Summary
Chapter One: The Inquiry’s Frame
A. Problems
B. The Question
C. Feigning
D. Experiences
E. Self-Regard
F. Housekeeping
Chapter Two: Evasions and Nullifications
A. Mind-Emergence
B. The Existence Problem
Chapter Three: The Analysis of Image-Being
A. Ultimate Images
B. Being-and-Nonbeing
C. Table of Terms
D. Intending Speech
E. Diagrams of Consciousness
F. Kinds of Images
G. Spontaneity and Summoning
H. Worldmaking Places
I. Space Stripped-Down
J. Against Fantasy
K. Donegality: Atmospheric Essence
L. Impassioned Imagery
M. Arousing Music
N. Polytheism and Monotheism
O. Augustine’s Trinity
P. Plotinus the Neoplatonist
Q. Idealists on Originals
R. Vico’s Imaginative Universals
S. Corroborations
T. “How it actually was”
Chapter Four: Do Feigning Images Have Originals?
A. Defense (Greek: Apologia) of My Inquiry
B. The Reinstatement of Image-Being
C. The Truth and Primacy of Originals
D. A Reprise of the Ancients
E. The Secular Faith Required
F. The Storytelling Spirit
G. The Angelic Analogy
H. Hades, The Home of Originals
I. Radiant Visibility
J. Similarity: Sameness-in-Difference
K. Postulated
A. Mental Imagery
B. Copy
C. Original
D. Chapter Summary
Chapter One: The Inquiry’s Frame
A. Problems
B. The Question
C. Feigning
D. Experiences
E. Self-Regard
F. Housekeeping
Chapter Two: Evasions and Nullifications
A. Mind-Emergence
B. The Existence Problem
Chapter Three: The Analysis of Image-Being
A. Ultimate Images
B. Being-and-Nonbeing
C. Table of Terms
D. Intending Speech
E. Diagrams of Consciousness
F. Kinds of Images
G. Spontaneity and Summoning
H. Worldmaking Places
I. Space Stripped-Down
J. Against Fantasy
K. Donegality: Atmospheric Essence
L. Impassioned Imagery
M. Arousing Music
N. Polytheism and Monotheism
O. Augustine’s Trinity
P. Plotinus the Neoplatonist
Q. Idealists on Originals
R. Vico’s Imaginative Universals
S. Corroborations
T. “How it actually was”
Chapter Four: Do Feigning Images Have Originals?
A. Defense (Greek: Apologia) of My Inquiry
B. The Reinstatement of Image-Being
C. The Truth and Primacy of Originals
D. A Reprise of the Ancients
E. The Secular Faith Required
F. The Storytelling Spirit
G. The Angelic Analogy
H. Hades, The Home of Originals
I. Radiant Visibility
J. Similarity: Sameness-in-Difference
K. Postulated