Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy ...

• Main Author: Ochieng, Omedi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Notre Dame 2023
• Subjects: New Ground; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7274/24864741.v1; https://curate.library.nd.edu/articles/chapter/Intellectual_Imagination_Knowledge_and_Aesthetics_in_North_Atlantic_and_African_Philosophy/24864741/1

_The Intellectual Imagination_ unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ontology-that is, a systematic account of the context, forms, and dimensions in and through which knowledge and aesthetic practices are created, embodied, translated, and learned. Such an ontology not only accounts for the embeddedness of intellectual practices in the deep structures of politics, economics, and culture, but also in turn demonstrates the constitutive power of critical inquiry. It is against this background that Ochieng unfolds a multidimensional and capacious theory of knowledge and aesthetics. In a critique of the oppositional binaries that now reign in the modern and postmodern academy-binaries that pit fact versus ...