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Document Details : Title: Ontologie de l'imaginaire: quelle ontologie? Subtitle: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty et Dufrenne Author(s): DUFOURCQ, Annabelle Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies Volume: 10 Date: 2026 Pages: 55-79 DOI: 10.2143/EPH.10.0.3295007 Abstract : This article examines the difficulties of elaborating the project of an ontology of the imaginary. Can ontology find its archetype in that which never quite exists? How can the imaginary be articulated as a phenomenon and as an ontological principle? Can there be a continuous connection between the ontic and the ontological, between imagination as a personal activity and imagination as an anonymous imaginary in Nature? We examine three related although different approaches to the ontological status of the imaginary in the works of Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Dufrenne. We eventually defend a non-positivist ontology, in which the imaginary provides both the model and the method. Rooted in a play on images as diverse ways of being, this ontology opens up a mimetic process which aims less at understanding and representing than at reviving in ourselves and in our relationship to the world the dynamics of the institutions and reinstitutions where nature and culture, subjects and objects, the ontic and the ontological intertwine. |
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