The Possibility of Imaginal World (as Mulla Sadra defines it) in the Phenomenology of the Hermeneutics of Arts

The world of imagination has undergone various developments in the Islamic philosophy from the time of Farabi to that of Mulla Sadra.The auhors in this article suggest that by concentrating on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra, avoiding mystical perspectives, and resorting to phenomenological method, one can present an explanation about a stage of the world of imagination which is inter-subjective and delimited, without being involved in the validity or falsity of common philosophical arguments. They call it “world-imagination-content”. World-imagination-content is the imaginative aspect of the existential relation of the human being with existence, and the constituent of his imagination-content behaviors in different fields, including art. Taking world-imagination-content into account can pave the way for a better understanding of art in the philosophy of Heidegger, compensating its incapacity for understanding multiple artistic modes.