Can I read Reckoning with the Imagination : Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience on EtoBox?

Reckoning with the Imagination : Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience by Charles Altieri is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Reckoning with the Imagination : Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience about?

Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In __Reckoning with the Imagination__, Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein’s later work that stresses Wittgenstein’s parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism. Altieri begins by offering a phenomenology of imagination, because we cannot fully honor art if we do not link it to a distinctive, socially productive force. That force emerges in two quite different but equally powerful realizations in his reading of John Ashbery’s "Instruction Manual," which explicitly establishes a model for a postromantic view of imagination, and William Butler Yeats’s "Leda and the Swan.

Who reads Reckoning with the Imagination : Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience?

Author

Charles Altieri

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501700552

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Biography

Rating

4.4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14