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The question considered in this essay can be stated in the following terms: Can the conception of imagination, first set out in the context of a theory of metaphor centered around the notion of semantic innovation, be expanded outside the sphere of discourse to which it originally belonged?
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A French version of this article, written in honor of Mgr Henri Van Camp, first appeared in Savoir, faire espérer: les limites de la raison, Publications des Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis, Bruxelles, 1976.
E. Levinas, ‘Sens et existence’, p. 28.
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Ricoeur, P. (1978). Imagination in Discourse and in Action. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Human Being in Action. Analecta Husserliana, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9833-9_1
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