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Rethinking Imagination » (New Edition)
Authors: Gillian Robinson
ISBN-13: 9780415091930, ISBN-10: 0415091934
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 1993
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Gillian Robinson
Book Synopsis
This distinguished collection of papers argues for a positive interpretation of imagination. It discusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed. And it provides fascinating glimpses of the role of the imagination in the creation and management of Modernity.
Table of Contents
| Notes on contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Decentring society, recentring the subject | |
| 1 | A society of culture: the constitution of modernity | 15 |
| 2 | The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn | 30 |
| 3 | The elementary ethics of everyday life | 48 |
| 4 | European rationality | 65 |
| Pt. II | Creating imagination | |
| 5 | Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination | 87 |
| 6 | Imagination in discourse and in action | 118 |
| 7 | Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary | 136 |
| 8 | Reason, imagination, interpretation | 155 |
| Epilogue: Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity | 171 | |
| Name index | 186 | |
| Subject index | 189 |
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