Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory
Published on 23. July 2020
Book
Hardback
810 pages
978-90-04-43516-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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).More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1293 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43516-2 (9789004435162)
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Keith Moser, Ph.D. (2007), The University of Tennessee, is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has published seven full-length book projects including The Encyclopedic Philosophy of Michel Serres (2016), sixty-six articles, and numerous book chapters.
Ananta Ch. Sukla, Ph.D. (1974), Jadavpur University, India, is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, India. He is the author of numerous books including Art and Representation, Art and Experience, Art and Essence, and Fiction and Art.
Contributors are: David Konstan, Claude Calame, Allen Speight, Adrienne Mayor, Charles Altieri, Jody Azzouni, Warren Heiti, Carol Steinberg Gould, Rob van Gerwen, Michel Dion, Wendy Wheeler, Fiora Salis, Justin Humphreys, Keith Moser, Victor E. Taylor, Erik Bormanis, David Collins, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Samuel Kimball, Chandra Kavanagh, Dominic Gregory, Jiri Benovksy, David Fenner, Deborah Fillerup Weagel, Renee Conroy, Roderick Nicholls, Ton Kruse, Riyukta Raghunath, Arindam Chakrabarti, Yanping Gao, Amy Lee, Ali Hussain, Marion Renauld, Jesse Graves, Umar Timol, Louise Dupre, Lisa Fay Coutley
Ananta Ch. Sukla, Ph.D. (1974), Jadavpur University, India, is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, India. He is the author of numerous books including Art and Representation, Art and Experience, Art and Essence, and Fiction and Art.
Contributors are: David Konstan, Claude Calame, Allen Speight, Adrienne Mayor, Charles Altieri, Jody Azzouni, Warren Heiti, Carol Steinberg Gould, Rob van Gerwen, Michel Dion, Wendy Wheeler, Fiora Salis, Justin Humphreys, Keith Moser, Victor E. Taylor, Erik Bormanis, David Collins, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Samuel Kimball, Chandra Kavanagh, Dominic Gregory, Jiri Benovksy, David Fenner, Deborah Fillerup Weagel, Renee Conroy, Roderick Nicholls, Ton Kruse, Riyukta Raghunath, Arindam Chakrabarti, Yanping Gao, Amy Lee, Ali Hussain, Marion Renauld, Jesse Graves, Umar Timol, Louise Dupre, Lisa Fay Coutley
Content
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-Francois 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 Qur?an into Ibn al-?Arabi'
??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 Dupre
?38 Why to Wish for the Witch
??Lisa Fay Coutley
?Index
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-Francois 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 Qur?an into Ibn al-?Arabi'
??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 Dupre
?38 Why to Wish for the Witch
??Lisa Fay Coutley
?Index