No act of power, positive or negative, can appear in external reality unless it has first become a fact in the imagination. This is the view advocated here. The quality of power is first manifested in the world of the unseen, in the most deeply personal way. There, depending on whether the power relationship between each of us and the other person takes on the color of life, i.e. the urge to experience transparency (co-elevation), or the color of death, i.e. ruthless sovereignty within the opacity, the intensity of our existence bets with the mystery of our double possibility. In the first case, the imagination feels the collective meaning of reciprocity and gives it infinite sensible forms in ascension. In the second case, this meaning ceases to trust itself, and the imagination allows itself to be defeated in the impasse of the tendency to impose. The bravery of the passage from the second case to the first is the political question in the nihilism we live.
The Politics of Imagination
The Quality of Power as an Existential Choice
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Panagiotis O. Doikos was born and raised in Thessaloniki. It comes from Western Macedonia and Asia Minor. He graduated from the Experimental School of A.P.Th. He studied philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the University of Bourgogne in France. He is an associate professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His works are developed in the fields of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, as well as political philosophy. It explores the possibility of a new metaphysics within the body's relations with the contemplative imagination. At the same time, it attempts to examine elements of dialogue between Western and Eastern philosophy, in the perspective of a deeper understanding of the impasses that the negative dimension of human nature continues to cause. A particular interest of his is the philosophical theory of cinema.
Among the books of Panagiotis Doikos are the following: Spinoza. Imagination, knowledge and prophecy (Greek Letters publications), The logic of figures in the cinema of Orson Welles and The "death of God" and the metaphysical man (Indiktos publications), The life of the ideal in the cinema (Papazisi publications), Kierkegaard and Mollâ Sadrâ and Principia Formarum. Ontology of contemplative imagination (Rome editions), as well as the poetry collections The night drips light and Fire (Rome editions), The Blue Garden (Pigi editions).
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
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| Writer | Panagiotis O. Doikos |
| Pages | 92 |
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| Size | 14x21 cm |
| Publisher | Daedaleos Publications |
| isbn | 978-618-5298-15-9 |
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