Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory /

Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory /

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...

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Other Authors: Moser, Keith (Editor), Sukla, Ananta Ch. (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2020.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 351.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.