Controlling the philosophical imaginary: reading Pierre Hadot with Luiz Costa Lima Sharpe, Matthew 2013, Controlling the philosophical imaginary: reading Pierre Hadot with Luiz Costa Lima, Culture, theory & critique, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 225-240, doi: 10.1080/14735784.2013.782680. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Controlling the philosophical imaginary: reading Pierre Hadot with Luiz Costa Lima Author(s) Sharpe, Matthew orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-5775 Journal name Culture, theory & critique Volume number 54 Issue number 2 Start page 225 End page 240 Total pages 16 Publisher Routledge Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2013 ISSN 1473-5784 1473-5776 Keyword(s) Pierre Hadot philosophy Luiz Costa Lima imagination Summary This essay proffers a critical complement to Luiz Costa Lima's claims concerning the nature, history, and control of the imagination in Western culture. Accepting the wide scope of Costa Lima's critical claim about the socio-political control of imaginative literature in Western history, we claim that Pierre Hadot's work on philosophy as a bios in the ancient West cautions us lest we position philosophy in this history as always and necessarily an agency of control. At different times, philosophy has rather stood as an ally in practicing and promoting forms of criticity, and the playful, creative, and transformative envisaging of alternative ways of experiencing the world Costa Lima theoretically celebrates in literary fiction. Any critique of philosophy as always opposed to the critical imagination can only stand, we have argued, relative to philosophy as conceived on what Hadot suggests is but one, albeit the now hegemonic model: namely, as a body of systematic rational discourses, including discourses about the literary, poetics, and imaginary. What this vision of philosophy misses, Hadot shows, is how the ancient conception of philosophy (which survives in figures like Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Goethe) as a way of life promoted distinctly literary, aesthetic, and imaginative practices; first, to assist in the existential internalisation of the schools' ideas; secondly, to envisage in the sage and utopias edifying counterfactuals to help students critically reimagine accepted norms; and thirdly, in the conception of a transformed way of living and perceiving ‘according to nature’, whose parameters of autonomy and pleasurable contemplation of the singularity of the present experiences anticipate the experiences delineated in modern aesthetic theory. Language eng DOI 10.1080/14735784.2013.782680 Field of Research 220210 History of Philosophy 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities Socio Economic Objective 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2013 Copyright notice ©2013, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30056007 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 13 Sep 2013, 14:35:58 EST Fri, 13 Sep 2013, 14:38:00 EST Fri, 13 Sep 2013, 15:49:04 EST Tue, 17 Sep 2013, 09:25:04 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:03:01 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:11:00 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:12:10 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:13:03 EST Thu, 08 Jan 2015, 13:46:58 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 10:12:13 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 10:14:14 EST Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 07:16:27 EST Mon, 14 Mar 2016, 07:45:00 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:55:53 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 21:33:37 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1648 Abstract Views, 23 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 13 Sep 2013, 14:35:39 EST by Matthew Sharpe

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