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Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

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Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

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Chiara 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 Contents

Editorial introduction – Jeremy CA Smith
1.The Imaginaries of Moral Freedom: On Chiara Bottici and Drucilla Cornell – Eduardo Mendieta
2.Rethinking the Imaginal – María Pía Lara
3.Revisiting Imaginal Politics: From Totalitarianism to Post-truth Democracies– Simona Forti
4.The Ontography of Images: On the Legal Art of the Imaginal – Peter Goodrich
5.Bottici to the Letter – Jamieson Webster
6.Traversing Lacan's Imaginary with Bottici's Imaginal – Patricia Gherovici
7.Islamic Politics of Imagination: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood – Dietrich Jung and Ahmed Abou El Zalaf
8.Civilizations in history and myth: considerations on the imaginary and the imaginal – Jeremy CA Smith
9.Debating imaginal politics: a response – Chiara Bottici
Author biographies
Acknowledgments
Index

Product details

Published 05 Nov 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 194
ISBN 9781786615039
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 2 b/w illustrations; 8 b/w photos;
Dimensions 228 x 160 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Suzi Adams

Suzi Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the College of…

Anthology Editor

Jeremy C. A. Smith

Jeremy C A Smith is associate professor of sociolo…

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