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Productive imagination is a concept that has long deserved a special study. Saulius Geniusas traces its importance from Kant and Husserl through 20th century German and French phenomenology. With sweeping scholarship and penetrating analysis, Geniusas opens our eyes to the nature of productive imagination and its relation to embodiment, language, and subjectivity. -- David Carr, Professor Emeritus, Emory University Saulius Geniusas' book offers a radically new investigation of the vital relationship between imagination and the body. The writing is clear, persuasive, and extensive in its scholarly range. An important study of indispensable drives of human creativity. -- Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy, Boston College

Productive imagination is a concept that has long deserved a special study. Saulius Geniusas traces its importance from Kant and Husserl through 20th century German and French phenomenology. With sweeping scholarship and penetrating analysis, Geniusas opens our eyes to the nature of productive imagination and its relation to embodiment, language, and subjectivity. -David Carr, Professor Emeritus, Emory University Saulius Geniusas' book offers a radically new investigation of the vital relationship between imagination and the body. The writing is clear, persuasive, and extensive in its scholarly range. An important study of indispensable drives of human creativity. -Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy, Boston College

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Saulius Geniusas is Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main philosophical interests lie in Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics. Geniusas is the author of The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (Springer 2012), The Phenomenology of Pain (Ohio University Press 2020) and What is Pain? Descriptive Psychology, Transcendental Phenomenology and Naturalism (in Lithuanian; Phi knygos 2021). He has also edited a number of books on phenomenology, hermeneutics, comparative philosophy, and philosophy of the imagination, including Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield 2018) and What is Productive Imagination? (co-edited with Dmitri Nikulin; Rowman & Littlefield 2018). His research has been published by the main journals in Continental philosophy, such as Continental Philosophy Review, Research in Phenomenology, Human Studies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Geniusas has published more than sixty articles in various philosophy journals and anthologies in English, German, and his native Lithuanian. His works have also been translated into French, Spanish, and Polish. Currently, he is one of the editors of the Social Imaginaries book series, published by Rowman & Littlefield.

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