Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology

275 Pages·2003·1.23 MB·English

by  Vincent Crapanzano

I m ag i nat i v e
H o r i z o n s

I m a g i n a t i v e
H o r i z o n s
     
l i t e r a ry- p h i l o s o p h i ca l
a n t h r o p o l o gy
Vi n c e n t C r a pa n z a n o
    
  
V Cis distinguished professor ofcomparative
literature and anthropology at the City University ofNew York Graduate
Center. He is the author ofnumerous books, including The Hamadsha:
A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry, Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan,
Waiting: The Whites of South Africa, Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire:
On the Epistemology of Interpretation,and Serving the Word: Literalism
in America from the Pulpit to the Bench.
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Crapanzano, Vincent, –
Imaginative horizons : an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology /
Vincent Crapanzano.
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 

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense
sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended
in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in
its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is
imaginative—much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius—
it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the
air into revelations.
HJ, The Art of Fiction

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Introduction 
 Imaginative Horizons 
 The Between 
 Body,Pain, and Trauma 
 Hope 
 The Transgressive and the Erotic 
 Remembrance 
 World-Ending 
 
 
 