The Literary Imagination

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
Angeliki Sioli ◽  
Kristen Kelsch
Keyword(s):  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Spatial Understanding ◽  
Philosophical Background

Engaging the example of the Literary Imagination assignment, this paper presents the unfolding of design studio coursework that empowers each student to explore their personal and distinctively unique imagination for the making of drawings. By examining its implementation and the philosophical background anchoring our approach, this paper seeks to illuminate how literature may draw out the unexpected and enrich spatial understanding.

The Enneads of Plotinus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kalligas
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Christian Thought

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Kim ◽  
Taehee Kim ◽  
Jinhyoung Lee ◽  
Inseop Shin
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Mobile Video ◽  
Urban Travel ◽  
Han River ◽  
Mobile Community ◽  
Restricted Region ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Relationship Of

This think piece approaches urban travel from a mobility humanities perspective, using the example of Seoul, South Korea, a leading metropolis in Asia. The article demonstrates three modes of interpreting urban travel in Seoul: (1) representation by means of mobile video technologies embodying a paradoxical relationship of powers; (2) literary imagination confining a possible mobile community in a restricted region; and (3) philosophical speculation presenting “crossing the Han River” as a spiritual and emotional reproduction of the connection between, and consequential rupture of, heterogeneous territories. The article pays particular attention to the represented, imagined, and speculated dimensions of urban travel, which is understood as a physically practiced and cognitively elaborated production, rather than a predefined movement per se.

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