UID:
edocfu_9961373343002883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
90-04-43635-9
Series Statement:
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy and religion ; Volume 351
Content:
This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse.
Note:
Includes index.
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Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Historical Imagination and Judgement -- 1 Imagination and Art in Classical Greece and Rome -- David Konstan -- 2 Poetic Imagination and Cultural Memory in Greek History and Mythology -- Claude Calame -- 3 History, Imagination and the Narrative of Loss: Philosophical Questions about the Task of Historical Judgment -- Allen Speight -- Part 2: Gendered Imagination -- 4 Imagining the Captive Amazon: Myth, Art, and History -- Adrienne Mayor -- 5 Gender and Imagination: A Feminist Analysis of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men -- Reshmi Mukherjee -- Part 3: Imagination and Ethics -- 6 Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance: A Genesis of the Post-freudian World -- Carol Steinberg Gould -- 7 Craving Sameness, Accepting Difference: Imaginative Possibilities for Solidarity and Social Justice -- Chandra Kavanagh -- 8 The Importance of Imagination/Phantasia for the Moral Psychology of Virtue Ethics -- David Collins -- 9 The Infanticidal Logic of Mimesis as Horizon of the Imaginable -- A. Samuel Kimball -- 10 The Relationship Between Imagination and Christian Prayer -- Michel Dion -- Part 4: Phenomenological and Epistemological Perspectives -- 11 The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively -- Charles Altieri -- 12 Conceiving and Imagining: Examples and Lessons -- Jody Azzouni -- 13 The Dance of Perception: The Role of the Imagination in Simone Weil’s Early Epistemology -- Warren Heiti -- 14 One Imagination or Many? or None? -- Rob van Gerwen -- 15 Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination -- Roderick Nicholls -- Part 5: Postmodern Perspectives -- 16 Simulacral Imagination and the Nexus of Power in a Post-marxist Universe -- Keith Moser -- 17 Jean-François Lyotard, the Radical Imagination, and the Aesthetic of the Differend -- Victor E. Taylor -- 18 The Possibility of a Productive Imagination in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari -- Erik Bormanis -- Part 6: Imagination in Scientific Modeling and Biosemiotics -- 19 Of Predators and Prey: Imagination in Scientific Modeling -- Fiora Salis -- 20 Geometry and the Imagination -- Justin Humphreys -- 21 Art and Imagination: The Evolution of Meanings -- Wendy Wheeler -- Part 7: Aesthetic Perspectives -- 22 Image, Image-making and Imagination -- Dominic Gregory -- 23 Depiction, Imagination, and Photography -- Jiri Benovksy -- 24 Imagination and Identification in Photography and Film -- David Fenner -- 25 Imagination in Musical Composition, Performance, and Listening: John Cage’s Blurring of Boundaries in Music and Life in 4′33″ -- Deborah Fillerup Weagel -- 26 Kinesthetic Imagining and Dance Appreciation -- Renee M. Conroy -- 27 Imagination in Games: Formulation, Re-actualization and Gaining a World -- Ton Kruse -- 28 “‘I AM not mad, most noble Festus.’ No. But I have been”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Complex, Imaginative Worlds of Sarban’s The Sound of his Horn -- Riyukta Raghunath -- Part 8: Non-western Perspectives -- 29 The Deep Frivolity of Life: An Indian Aesthetic Phenomenology of Fun -- Arindam Chakrabarti -- 30 The Symbolic Force of Rocks in the Chinese Imagination -- Yanping Gao -- 31 Magic from the Repressed: Imagination and Memories in Contemporary Japanese Literary Narratives -- Amy Lee -- 32 The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾan into Ibn al-ʿArabi’ -- Ali Hussain -- Part 9: Artists Reflect on Imagination: An Imaginative Epilogue -- 33 Free Thinking about Imagination: How is it to Imagine What Imagination is? -- Marion Renauld -- 34 The Nativity of Images -- Ton Kruse -- 35 Signal: Poetry and Imagination -- Jesse Graves -- 36 The Echo of Voices -- Umar Timol -- 37 Poem, Liberty -- Louise Dupré -- 38 Why to Wish for the Witch -- Lisa Fay Coutley -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-43516-6
Language:
English
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