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Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

Edited by Suzi Adams and Jeremy C. A. 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

Pages: 194 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-78661-503-9 • Hardback • November 2021 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-5381-5134-1 • eBook • November 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Social Imaginaries

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

Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

Hardback

eBook

Summary

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

Pages: 194 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-78661-503-9 • Hardback • November 2021 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-5381-5134-1 • eBook • November 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Social Imaginaries

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

Author

Suzi Adams is senior lecturer in sociology at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Castoriadis’s Ontology: Being and Creation (2011), and editor of Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts (2014).
Jeremy C A Smith is associate professor of sociology and associate dean, research in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia.

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

Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

Edited by Suzi Adams and Jeremy C. A. Smith

Debating Imaginal Politics

Dialogues with Chiara Bottici

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