Plays, Dreams, and Translations

Among the different themes that occupy John Sallis’s works, the development of a logic of imagination is central to his oeuvre. Following some of the traces in Sallis’s works to the plays of William Shakespeare and the thought of Martin Heidegger, this essay aims to show, first, that his logic of imagination offers an alternative logic that is no longer in the orbit of metaphysics; second, that in his logic of imagination an enlarged but ambiguous receptivity is at stake, beyond the confines of the concept of traditional logic; and, third, that this enlarged receptivity is concerned with a particular but ambivalent truth-claim, suggesting that dreams, plays, and translations are engaged in bearing witness

Ambivalence · AND gate · Argument (complex analysis) · Imagination · Term logic · German Literature and Culture Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Samuel Beckett and Modernism