Chiara Bottici

Imaginal Politics

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. She identifies the imaginal's critical role in powering representative democracies and its amplification through globalization.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780231157797
• ISBN-10: 0231157797
• Artikelnr.: 54797694

Autorenporträt

Chiara Bottici is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and the author of A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Imagining
1. From Phantasia to Imagination
2. From Imagination to the Imaginary and Beyond?
3. Toward a Theory of the Imaginal
Part 2. Politics
4. A Genealogy of Politics: From Its Invention to the Biopolitical Turn
5. Imaginal Politics
6. Contemporary Transformations Between Spectacle and Virtuality
Part 3. The Global Spectacle
7. The Politics of the Past: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
8. The Repositioning of Religion in the Public Sphere: Imaginal Consequences
9. Imagining Human Rights: Gender, Race, and Class
The Freedom of Equals: A Conclusion and a New Beginning
Notes
Bibliography
Index