{"product_id":"imagination-and-art-explorations-in-contemporary-theory-9789004435162","title":"Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'At the end of this wonderful journey through the theories of imagination and the various types of imaginaries, one is certainly fascinated by a polysemic view of the concept of imagination. Moser and Sukla have managed to find the best way to organise and channel a multitude of expert opinions towards a single goal: the revival of interest in the subject of imagination and its profound meaning in human life.' - Carlo Alessandro Caccia, in: enthymema (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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\u0026lt;    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535925182807,"sku":"9789004435162","price":172.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagination-and-art-explorations-in-contemporary-theory-9789004435162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}