RETHINKING IMAGINATION

ISBN-13: 9780415091923 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 200 str.

Opis

A collection of papers that argues for a positive interpretation of imagination. Contributors discuss the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed; and they provide glimpses of the role of the imagination in the creation and management of "modernity".

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction, John Rundell; Part I Decentring society, recentring the subject; Chapter 1 A society of culture: the constitution of modernity, Gyorgy Markus; Chapter 2 The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn, Martin Jay; Chapter 3 The elementary ethics of everyday life, Agnes Heller; Chapter 4 European rationality, Niklas Luhmann; Part II Creating imagination; Chapter 5 Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination, John Rundell; Chapter 6 Imagination in discourse and in action, Paul Ricoeur; Chapter 7 Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis; Chapter 8 Reason, imagination, interpretation, Johann P. Arnason; epilogue Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity, David Roberts;

O autorze

Gillian Robinson lectures in Politics at Deakin University
John Rundell is Ashworth Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.