Saulius Geniusas
I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My main philosophical interests lie in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. I have teaching and research competence in aesthetics, philosophical anthropology and history of philosophy. In recent years, my research has been primarily (although not exclusively) focused on philosophy of imagination, philosophy of pain and a plethora of issues that surround self-awareness.
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Against such a background, Geniusas develops a new conception of productive imagination: It is a basic modality of intentionality that indirectly shapes the human experience of the world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge, and understanding. It is not so much a blind and indispensable function of the soul, but an art concealed in the body, for it springs out of instincts, drives, desires, and needs. The author demonstrates in which unexpected ways phenomenology of productive imagination enriches our understanding of embodied subjectivity.
problemą, svarbią įvairioms tyrimų sritims, tokioms kaip
fenomenologija, transcendentaline filosofija, skausmo filosofija, psichologija ir kognityvinis mokslas. Problema susijusi
su pagrindinės sąvokos paaiškinimu: kas yra skausmas?
Nors apie skausmą ir gausu literatūros, su kuria susiduriame
įvairiose mokslo srityse, patikimo atsakymo į šį pamatinį
klausimą neturime.
Edited Volumes
It is not always clear how hermeneutics-that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and a large number of thinkers working under their influence-regards the phenomenological tradition, be it in its Husserlian or various post-Husserlian formulations. This volume inquires into this issue both in general, conceptual terms and through specific analyses into questions of ontology and metaphysics, science, language, theology, and imagination. With a substantial editors' introduction, the volume contains 15 chapters, from some of the most significant scholars in this field covering the essential questions about the history, present and future of these two disciplines.
The volume will be of interest to any philosopher or student with an interest in developing a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of contemporary hermeneutics and phenomenology.
The traditions covered in this volume-existentialism, pragmatism, poststructuralism, Eastern philosophy, and hermeneutics itself-are all characterized by significant internal diversity, adding to the difficulty in reaching an interpretation that is at once comparative and critical. None of these traditions represent a unified system of belief; all are umbrella terms which are at once useful and imprecise, and the differences internal to each must not to be understated.
An innovative work of comparative philosophy, this volume avoids oversimplification and offers specific analyses that treat hermeneutics in relation to particular themes and key figures in each of these traditions of thought. Philosophical hermeneutics is explicitly dialogical, and it is in this spirit that the authors of this book approach their subjects, revealing the important affinities and opportunities for mutually enriching conversations which have until now been overlooked.
The essays here presented focus on highly unorthodox conceptions of productive imagination, which in various ways have imploded the conceptual dualisms that pervade Kant’s philosophy: sensibility vs. understanding, phenomenon vs. noumenon, nature vs. freedom, theoretical vs. practical reason. Here productive imagination is conceived as a constitutive power that shapes the human experience of the actual world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge and understanding.
Papers
Against such a background, Geniusas develops a new conception of productive imagination: It is a basic modality of intentionality that indirectly shapes the human experience of the world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge, and understanding. It is not so much a blind and indispensable function of the soul, but an art concealed in the body, for it springs out of instincts, drives, desires, and needs. The author demonstrates in which unexpected ways phenomenology of productive imagination enriches our understanding of embodied subjectivity.
problemą, svarbią įvairioms tyrimų sritims, tokioms kaip
fenomenologija, transcendentaline filosofija, skausmo filosofija, psichologija ir kognityvinis mokslas. Problema susijusi
su pagrindinės sąvokos paaiškinimu: kas yra skausmas?
Nors apie skausmą ir gausu literatūros, su kuria susiduriame
įvairiose mokslo srityse, patikimo atsakymo į šį pamatinį
klausimą neturime.
It is not always clear how hermeneutics-that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and a large number of thinkers working under their influence-regards the phenomenological tradition, be it in its Husserlian or various post-Husserlian formulations. This volume inquires into this issue both in general, conceptual terms and through specific analyses into questions of ontology and metaphysics, science, language, theology, and imagination. With a substantial editors' introduction, the volume contains 15 chapters, from some of the most significant scholars in this field covering the essential questions about the history, present and future of these two disciplines.
The volume will be of interest to any philosopher or student with an interest in developing a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of contemporary hermeneutics and phenomenology.
The traditions covered in this volume-existentialism, pragmatism, poststructuralism, Eastern philosophy, and hermeneutics itself-are all characterized by significant internal diversity, adding to the difficulty in reaching an interpretation that is at once comparative and critical. None of these traditions represent a unified system of belief; all are umbrella terms which are at once useful and imprecise, and the differences internal to each must not to be understated.
An innovative work of comparative philosophy, this volume avoids oversimplification and offers specific analyses that treat hermeneutics in relation to particular themes and key figures in each of these traditions of thought. Philosophical hermeneutics is explicitly dialogical, and it is in this spirit that the authors of this book approach their subjects, revealing the important affinities and opportunities for mutually enriching conversations which have until now been overlooked.
The essays here presented focus on highly unorthodox conceptions of productive imagination, which in various ways have imploded the conceptual dualisms that pervade Kant’s philosophy: sensibility vs. understanding, phenomenon vs. noumenon, nature vs. freedom, theoretical vs. practical reason. Here productive imagination is conceived as a constitutive power that shapes the human experience of the actual world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge and understanding.
Although the concept of productive imagination plays a fundamental role in Kant, German Idealism, Romanticism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, the meaning of this central concept remains largely undetermined. The significance of productive imagination is therefore all-too-often either inflated or underrated. The articles collected in this volume trace the development of productive imagination through the history of philosophy, identify the different meanings this concept has been ascribed in different philosophical frameworks, and raise the question anew concerning this concept's philosophical significance. How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism. The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. "The Productive Imagination" offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.
"Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination" addresses the diverse ways in which productive imagination has been conceptualized in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Besides exploring the different meanings that the concept of productive imagination has been given in Kant’s own writings, the volume explores imagination’s poetic, historical and generative dimensions as well as shows its significance for the human and social sciences; it demonstrates its relevance in the formation of political concepts as well as addresses productive imagination’s significance at the levels of pre-linguistic understanding and kinaesthetic experience.
The essays here presented focus on highly unorthodox conceptions of productive imagination, which in various ways have imploded the conceptual dualisms that pervade Kant’s philosophy: sensibility vs. understanding, phenomenon vs. noumenon, nature vs. freedom, theoretical vs. practical reason. Here productive imagination is conceived as a constitutive power that shapes the human experience of the actual world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge and understanding.
This is a blog about two books edited by Saulius Geniusas (one co-edited with Dimitri Nikulin) as part of the Social Imaginaries book series.
Ariela Battán Horenstein. Fenomenología del Dolor (Presentación). Phenomenology of pain (Brief presentation).
Agustín Serrano de Haro. El Largo Presente del Dolor Físico. Cinco leyes de la temporalidad adolorida. The Long Present of Physical Pain. Five Laws of Sorrowed Temporality.
Ariela Battán Horenstein e Luís António Umbelino. Fenomenología del Cuerpo y Análisis del Dolor. Entrevista a Agustín Serrano de Haro. Phenomenology of the Body and Analysis of Pain. An Interview with Agustín Serrano de Haro.
Saulius Geniusas. Más Allá del Naturalismo y del Constructivismo Social. La Function de la Fenomenología en la Investigación sobre el Dolor. Beyond Naturalism and Social Constructivism: the Role of Phenomenology in Pain Research.
António Zirión Quijano. Cuerpo y Afectividad en Los Estudios acerca de la Estructura de La Conciencia de Husseri. Body and Affectivity in the Studies about the Structure of Consciousness of Husseri.
Joan González Guardiola. Phenomenology of Vertigo and Dizziness.
Iván Ortega Rodríguez. El Dolor en los Escritos Patočka de los años 40. Intencionalidad Negativa y Experiencia del Mal. The Pain in the Writing of Patočka of the 40’s. Negative Intentionality and the Experience of Evil.