| Description |
vii, 192 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction --- Part I. Decentring society, recentring the subject. 1. A society of culture: the constitution of modernity -- 2. The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn -- 3. The elementary ethics of everyday life -- 4. European rationality --- Part II. Creating imagination. 5. Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination -- 6. Imagination in discourse and in action -- 7. Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary -- 8. Reason, imagination, interpretation --- Epilogue: Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity |
| Summary |
This distinguished collection of papers argues for a positive interpretation of imagination. It discusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed. And it provides fascinating glimpses of the role of the imagination in the creation and management of Modernity |
| Analysis |
Imagination |
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Imagination |
| Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 4-8, 1991 |
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Produced following a conference on R̀€eason and imagination in modern culture' held in Melbourne, Australia, 4th-8th August 1991 organized by the journal Thesis eleven |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Creative thinking -- Congresses.
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Creative thinking.
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Imagination (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
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Imagination -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Imagination -- Social aspects.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Christian theology)
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Modernism (Christian theology) -- Congresses.
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| Author |
Robinson, Gillian.
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Rundell, John F.
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| LC no. |
93017209 |
| ISBN |
0415091926 |
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0415091934 (paperback) |
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