Spatiality, imagery, and the paradox of fictional emotions

Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Andrea Zhok
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/3
Language English Pages 16 P. 143-158 File size 66 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2014-003010
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Oggetto d’analisi è il significato di "realtà" ed il contributo dell’immaginazione alla sua definizione. Nel primo paragrafo, attraverso un’analisi delle tesi di S. Kosslyn, ci si chiede in che misura i caratteri spaziali dell’immaginario possano essere interpretati come essenzialmente afferenti ai giudizi di realtà. Nel secondo paragrafo viene affrontato il tema delle relazioni tra immaginazione e realtà alla luce delle analisi di Sartre ne L’imaginaire. Quest’analisi si conclude con l’elaborazione di due definizioni complementari di realtà. Nell’ultimo paragrafo l’analisi precedente è applicata al cosiddetto "paradosso delle emozioni finzionali", come illustrazione del riassetto concettuale proposto.

Keywords: Phenomenology, imagination, reality, Sartre, spatiality, world.

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Andrea Zhok, Spatiality, imagery, and the paradox of fictional emotions in "PARADIGMI" 3/2014, pp 143-158, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2014-003010