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The Subject Genesis, the Imaginary and the Poetical Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Gabriele Schwab
Gabriele Schwab*
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University of Constance
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“I am, but I do not own myself”—this famous formula of Plessner conceives man as an excentric subject, i.e. a being who can never dominate and dispose of himself as a whole. If we add to Plessner's dictum Bloch's answer to it: “I am. But I do not own myself. Therefore we are still becoming” then we are already suggesting the anthropological space of the imaginary; because the ability to imagine something that is not, plays an essential role in this subject's becoming.

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Diogenes , Volume 29 , Issue 115 , September 1981, pp. 55 - 80
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Copyright © 1981 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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