As Lindley and Srinavasan note regarding film, “Particular cinematic devices can be used to create different connotations or subtextual meanings while dealing with similar diegetic material” [5]. In language, different ‘illocutionary forces’ create different meaning from the same ‘propositional content.’ However, linguistic philosopher J.R. Searle thinks this points not to infinite elasticity o...

J HENRY NEWMAN was one of the greatest English prose writers whose works spanned the nineteenth century. His penchant for figurative language revealed a literary talent that was rhetorically exciting and highly imaginative. In the wake of Romanticism he used the imagination in his theological method to portray the intellectual depth of religious belief. He understood the imagination as a mental...

The author of this essay searches for traces confirming the influence cinema on Wiesław Myśliwski’s life and works. Despite fact that writer acknowledged his love cinema, aspect is overlooked in discussions oeuvre. Myśliwski himself also does not devote much space to it recently published collection texts interviews W środku jesteśmy baśnią. Mowy i rozmowy [We are a Fairy Tales Within: Speeches...

In Petry's edition of the Encyclopedia, it appears from the table of contents that Imagination is subdivided into (a) Reproductive Imagination, (b) Associative Imagination, and (c) Phantasy, which is then itself subdivided into (i) Symbol, (ii) Sign, and (iii) Language. But this division seems to be Boumann's, not Hegel's, for if attention is paid to the architectonic mentioned in the main para...

This article is an attempt to situate imagination within consciousness complete with its own pre-cognitive, cognitive, and meta-cognitive domains. In the first sections we briefly review traditional philosophical and psychological conceptions of the imagination. The majority have viewed perception and imagination as separate faculties, performing distinct functions. A return to a phenomenologic...