Abstract
Abstract This chapter details how recognition of the productive imagination transformed the philosophy of imagination and preoccupied philosophers throughout the 20th century. It considers the implications of the productive turn as explored in 20th-century theories of imagination from Wittgenstein’s notion of aspect perception or seeing-as to the phenomenology of Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Pointy, Gaston Bachelard, and the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. This chapter shows how productive imagination augments reality by endowing it with distinctly human meaning and shaping our experience of it. From seeing-as to the linguistic use of metaphor and narrative structure, imagination manifests new meanings that transcend, and may illuminate, given configurations of the real.
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