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Mundus Imaginalis, Un concept pentru o altă lume
Mundus imaginalis, a concept for another world

Author(s): Dorin Ştefănescu
Subject(s): Islam studies, Contemporary Philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ontology, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Henry Corbin; imaginal; utopic; imagination; form; image;

Summary/Abstract: The interpretation bellow focuses on Henry Corbin’s theory regarding the concept of “mundus imaginalis”, based on the distinction between the imaginary and the imaginal. This second one is opposed no more to the real, but opens and deepens it to another dimension. It’s a third intermediary world, a utopian level – according to the neo-platonic cosmology – where spiritual images appear. The organ perceiving this new reality is the active imagination; its cognitive power is to enter the distance created by the interval of this mediation. The result is the “sight” of a form that becomes visible through the transparence of the invisible: the image of a hidden world.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 19-24
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian