Debating Imaginal Politics

Edited by Suzi Adams and Jeremy Smith

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.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

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978-1-78661-503-9 • Hardback • June 2021 • $120.00 • (£80.00)

Series: Social Imaginaries

Subjects: Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Aesthetics, Philosophy / Political

Debating Imaginal Politics

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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.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

•

978-1-78661-503-9 • Hardback • June 2021 • $120.00 • (£80.00)

Series: Social Imaginaries

Subjects: Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Aesthetics, Philosophy / Political

Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction by Suzi Adams and Jeremy Smith
1. Deliberative Imagining with Spinoza and Bottici by Moira Gatens
2. Rethinking the Imaginal: A Critical Recovery of Imagination as a Faculty, as a Context, and as a Pictorial Image by Maria Pia Lara
3. Post-Law and the Imaginal by Peter Goodrich
4. Sensible Law and Imaginal Normativity. A Legal Interpretation of Bottici’s Work by Emanuel Coccia
5. Myth and the Imaginal as Pictorial Space: A Psychoanalytic Approach by Jamieson Webster
6. The Imaginaries of Moral Freedom: On Chiara Bottici and Drucilla Cornell by Eduardo Mendieta
7. On Castoriadis, the Imaginary, and the Imaginal by Suzi Adams
8. Civilizations in history and myth: considerations on the imaginary and the imaginal by Jeremy C A Smith
9. Response by Chiara Bottici
Index

Debating Imaginal Politics

Edited by Suzi Adams and Jeremy Smith

Debating Imaginal Politics

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