Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43516-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 351, 784 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1319 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy and Religion

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moser, Keith

Ch Sukla, Ananta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 MenReshmi 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 Ge

Über Autor(innen)

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 Dupré, Lisa Fay Coutley