The Philosophy of Imagination
Technology, Art and Ethics
- 256 pages
- English
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The Philosophy of Imagination
Technology, Art and Ethics
About this book
Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today both shapes and is shaped by technology, art and ethics. Imagination is one of the most significant and broadly examined concepts in contemporary philosophy and is frequently understood as a basic human faculty that enables complex activities. This book shows, however, that imagination is more than a mere enabler. Whilst imagination shapes our experiences, it is at the same time shaped by our environments. Some of the most creative manifestations of imagination are the result of its two-way interaction with art or technology, or both. In short, imagination co-shapes us. Beyond the traditional perspectives of Kant and Heidegger, The Philosophy of Imagination: Technology, Art and Ethics examines our dynamic relationship with imagination, from contemporary technological advancements such as AI that transform the whole ecosystem to imagination in the context of videogames and literary fiction. Analysing societal imagination, it addresses the relationship between the racial imaginary and white ignorance, as well as the effects that societal mechanisms such as lockdowns can have on our imagination. Taking its cue from the here and now, this volume brings together leading international scholars to investigate how the concept of co-shaping allows us to see imagination and its crucial role in society in new and productive ways.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Imagination and Technology
- 1 Technologically Related Imagination: Postphenomenology and the Art of Dibutades
- 2 Can Algorithms Imagine?
- 3 Emaginary; or Why the Essence of (Digital) Technology Is by No Means Entirely Technological
- 4 Techno-Activism
- Part II Imagination and Ethics
- 5 White Ignorance and the Racial Imaginary
- 6 Moving in a World You Cannot See: From Imaginative Perception to Creative Moral Imagination
- 7 Narrative and Imagination in Times of Global Pandemics
- Part III Imagination and Art
- 8 Poetic Imagination and Technology: A Dialectical Assessment
- 9 Am I in Wonderland as Alice Is? The First-Person Perspective in Imaginative Art and Game Experiences
- 10 Representation, Expression, Exemplification: Paul Ricoeur, Nelson Goodman, and the Role of Imagination in the Metaphorical Process
- 11 Imagination and Images between Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
- Part IV Imagination, the Human, and the Contemporary World
- 12 Why Imagination Needs Socratic Ignorance
- 13 Ryle and Sartre against Hume’s Theory of the Imagination
- 14 Enactive Imagination: Its Roots and Contemporary Horizons
- 15 Phantasy and Technologically Embedded Imagination: A Phenomenological and Postphenomenological Analysis
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright