The lightning-filled night phenomenology and "metaphysics" in Giovanni Piana's philosophy of imagination

Imagination is one of the most important and pervasive topics in Piana’s philosophical work and the development of an original phenomenological approach to imagination is one of his most substantial achievement. Aim of this paper is to explain two of the main aspects of his phenomenology of imagination: the a-contextual nature of its objects and the historical and material foundations of imagination itself. A short concluding remark is devoted to cast a glance to a coherent and natural development of Piana’s philosophy of imagination.