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Book SynopsisChiara Bottici’s influential work on imaginal politics has provided a rich theoretical framework and incisive critical analysis with which to engage the contemporary world. Rethinking the image as a pictorial space of political activity located between the poles of the creative imagination of the self and social imaginary significations of the social collective, her work has provided a critical new resource not only in the academy, but for activists as well. This collection of essays by leading scholars debates Bottici’s account of imaginal politics from inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from critical theory and political philosophy, to psychoanalysis, and sociology. It provides the first systematic and interdisciplinary engagement with the imaginal field. The book is a must-read for all scholars interested in debates on the political, social transformation, social imaginaries, and the imagination, and will appeal to researchers and graduate students across a wide variety of disciplines as well as activists and politically-engaged readers.
Table of ContentsEditorial introduction – Jeremy CA Smith
- The Imaginaries of Moral Freedom: On Chiara Bottici and Drucilla Cornell – Eduardo Mendieta
- Rethinking the Imaginal – María Pía Lara
- Revisiting Imaginal Politics: From Totalitarianism to Post-truth Democracies– Simona Forti
- The Ontography of Images: On the Legal Art of the Imaginal – Peter Goodrich
- Bottici to the Letter – Jamieson Webster
- Traversing Lacan’s Imaginary with Bottici’s Imaginal – Patricia Gherovici
- Islamic Politics of Imagination: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood – Dietrich Jung and Ahmed Abou El Zalaf
- Civilizations in history and myth: considerations on the imaginary and the imaginal – Jeremy CA Smith
- Debating imaginal politics: a response – Chiara Bottici
Author biographies
Acknowledgments
Index
