Eco-Imagination as the New Phenomenological Frontier

This collection of research contributes to the common goal of looking at the imagination from the novel perspective of its ecological potential. The phenomenological imagination, thus, appears no longer confined in the mere relationship with perception but emerges as the source of the experience of the possible, through which the latent virtualities in the processes of self-individualization that constitute evolving life become visible. According to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, we must turn to this ecological potential of our creative imagination if we want to overcome the current and unsustainable order of the world and life; also avoiding the temptation of dominance and exploitation that constantly emanates from the rationalistic-technological logos inherited from Modernity. Eco-phenomenology built through eco-imagination is the new frontier to be explored and founded to achieve a sustainable future. This volume appeals to students and researchers in phenomenology and related fields.

-FM:Preface , Aknowledgements , ToC. - Part I: From Imaginatio Creatrix to Eco-Imagination. - Chapter 1: Metaphysics of Ecology and Eco-Imagination: Entropy, Nature, and Life. - Chapter 2: Imaginatio Creatrix, Moral Sense and Hesitant Bodies. - Chapter 3: The Relation Between Empathy and Imagination: Eco-imagination and the Cold Empathy in the Theoretical Frame of Imaginatio Creatrix. - Chapter 4: Imaging a transition from an instrumental intentionality to a loving one in the relationship with Earth and Cosmos: the role of the eco-phenomenology. - Chapter 5: Mapping Imagination and the Experience of Nature within the Ontopoietic Phenomenology. - Chapter 6: Eco-Imagination in the Phenomenology of Life. - Part 2: Eco-Imagination in the Perspective of Classic and Contemporary Phenomenology. - Chapter 7: The Future between Fantasy, Desire, and Hope. - Chapter 8: " The imaginative Apprehension. The Image-Consciousness in Husserl s Phenomenology. - Chapter 9: " How to get Closer to Reality: Intentionality and Imagination in Eco-Phenomenological Perspective. - Chapter 10: " Phenomenology of Eco-imagination. Husserl and Fink toward an Aesthetic of Depresentation. - Chapter 11: " Image, Function, Conversion: Scheler on Ecological Imagination. - Chapter 12: Imagining other Humanities: Reassessing the relationship between phenomenology and anthropology. - Part 3: Openess to Eco-Imagination. - Chapter 13: " Nietzsche s Absolute Eco-Phenomenology : the Future of Earth as a ``Garden ? Some Reflections on Zarathustra s Garden, in his Coming Back to Earth and Life. " . - Chapter 14: The Eco-Imagination of Life: Toward a Material Eco-Phenomenology. - Chapter 15: Instituting Ecological Imaginaries with Cornelius Castoriadis. - Chapter 16: The Eco-Spiritual Phenomenology : For a Truly Sustainable Future Elisa. - Chapter 17: Autopoiesis of psychic perceptions in Heymann Steinthal in the key of a Cassirerian psychological-symbolic system of transcendental knowledge. - Chapter 18: From Sense-Giving Anomalies to the Ultimate Frontier: a Liminal Ontopoiesis in Wittgenstein.