DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS

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Autor(a) principal: Braga, Joaquim
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90763
https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.15160/2282-5460/2249
Resumo: More than a matter confined to Mandevillean thought, the discourse on the relationship between imagination and sensibility is a significant theoretical framework of eighteenth-century philosophical thought. Sensibility and imagination appear in Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Beesas antithetical concepts, because they are fully articulated according to a natural and deterministic criterion of the expression of passions. Such a materialist understanding of the passions places a premium upon the proximity of stimulus and accordingly problematizes the responsive role of imagination. I intend to show in this paper that the primacy of expression takes place, at first instance, regarding the imagination, which, as we can detect in all Mandeville’s oeuvre, is well exemplified by the mimetic function that art itself earns.
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spelling DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONSMandevillePassionsArtImaginationExpressionContiguity-RemotenessMore than a matter confined to Mandevillean thought, the discourse on the relationship between imagination and sensibility is a significant theoretical framework of eighteenth-century philosophical thought. Sensibility and imagination appear in Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Beesas antithetical concepts, because they are fully articulated according to a natural and deterministic criterion of the expression of passions. Such a materialist understanding of the passions places a premium upon the proximity of stimulus and accordingly problematizes the responsive role of imagination. I intend to show in this paper that the primacy of expression takes place, at first instance, regarding the imagination, which, as we can detect in all Mandeville’s oeuvre, is well exemplified by the mimetic function that art itself earns.I Castelli di Yale2020-09-02info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/90763http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90763https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.15160/2282-5460/2249engBraga, Joaquim, Distance, contiguity and imagination in Mandeville's account of passions, I Castelli di Yale, Vol. 8, Nº 1, 2020, pp. 89-110.http://cyonline.unife.it/article/view/2249/2074Braga, Joaquiminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-05-25T05:32:49Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/90763Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:10:48.152953Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
spellingShingle DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
Braga, Joaquim
Mandeville
Passions
Art
Imagination
Expression
Contiguity-Remoteness
title_short DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
title_full DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
title_fullStr DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
title_full_unstemmed DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
title_sort DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
author Braga, Joaquim
author_facet Braga, Joaquim
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Braga, Joaquim
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Mandeville
Passions
Art
Imagination
Expression
Contiguity-Remoteness
topic Mandeville
Passions
Art
Imagination
Expression
Contiguity-Remoteness
description More than a matter confined to Mandevillean thought, the discourse on the relationship between imagination and sensibility is a significant theoretical framework of eighteenth-century philosophical thought. Sensibility and imagination appear in Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Beesas antithetical concepts, because they are fully articulated according to a natural and deterministic criterion of the expression of passions. Such a materialist understanding of the passions places a premium upon the proximity of stimulus and accordingly problematizes the responsive role of imagination. I intend to show in this paper that the primacy of expression takes place, at first instance, regarding the imagination, which, as we can detect in all Mandeville’s oeuvre, is well exemplified by the mimetic function that art itself earns.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Braga, Joaquim, Distance, contiguity and imagination in Mandeville's account of passions, I Castelli di Yale, Vol. 8, Nº 1, 2020, pp. 89-110.
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