『로빈슨 크루소』의 상상력은 진리를 말하는가?

Abstract

In the novels, a character desires to have new sense of describing the world in the power of imagination that creates elements to recognize specific conditions of the event. This kind of imagination has produced heterogeneous results, because we were used to bifurcate something meaningful from different concepts. The situations understood by imagination conflate literary works extensively in itself. We know that our imagination in the meticulous places are expressed by the lens of connections, similarities, differences, and arguments. In fact, imagination alone was abandoned from ancient republic when Plato thought imagination was not perfection for imitating ideal society and teaching the young. However, what imagination concocted by philosophers was not specifically theorized because poets did not tell the truth at that moment. This was such a shocking event in this paper if there was nobody who tried to challenge the deadlock of cause and effect of imagination. Literary theorists believed that Plato expelled the poet from the fact that he discovered something more important than poetry. But Crusoe, who appeared in the novel, Robinson Crusoe of the 18th century, produced a wealth of imagination comparing new literary materials to the ideal world. From a fictional point of view, Robinson was just a working intellectual. There, imagination, which has not been clearly delineated since ancient times, was specifically demarcated in his words and made us experience the truth. He completed his economic success in the utopian world where the imagination reached its peak to create the indivisible remainders. This conjectural idea stimulates our curiosity to go back the truth that Plato thought poets were imaginative elitists in the Republic. After understanding Plato in a problematic imagination, we can move on to the philosophical fact that Kant defined imagination as representing intuition without being in the reality of the object. He allowed us to understand imagination with reasonable image and episteme. And Foucault explained another imagination through the problem of a person who could tell the truth. According to Plato, Kant, and Foucault’s arguments, in this paper I try to show the belief that imagination is the minimum unit for telling the truth. The minimum unit is revealed from the store of imagination, where the secret of truth is hidden waiting for our visiting. Therefore, we can explore the imagination of recognizing the truth because it exists in a different time and place.