The Politics of Imagination
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Imagination

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Politics of Imagination

About this book

The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people's imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives, the political role of imagination has undergone a massive quantitative and a qualitative change. As such, there has been a revival of interest in the concept of imagination, as the intimate connections between our capacity to form images and politics becomes more and more evident. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical outlooks, The Politics of Imagination examines how the power of imagination reverberates in the various ambits of social and political life: in law, history, art, gender, economy, religion and the natural sciences. And it will be of considerable interest to those with contemporary interests in philosophy, political philosophy, political science, legal theory, gender studies, sociology, nationalism, identity studies, cultural studies, and media studies.

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Yes, you can access The Politics of Imagination by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand, Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Jurisprudence. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781136719677
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Jurisprudence
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. From imagination to the imaginary and beyond: Towards a theory of imaginal politics
  9. 2. Politics at its best: Reasons that move the imagination
  10. 3. The politics of imagination: Spinoza and the origins of critical theory
  11. 4. From soul to mind: Psychology and political imagination
  12. 5. Imagination, imaginary and the bioeconomic turn of cognitive capitalism
  13. 6. Imagining the west, perceiving race: Social sciences and political imagination
  14. 7. Politics and the Messianic imagination
  15. 8. Religion and the struggle for people’s imagination: The case of contemporary Islamism
  16. 9. Modern politics and the historical imaginary
  17. 10. Literature as public reasoning in the political struggles over imagination
  18. 11. Feminist imagination: The aesthetic role of critique and representation
  19. 12. Visual studies and global imagination
  20. Index