Dynamics and performativity of imagination : the image between the visible and the invisible / edited by Bernd Huppauf and Christoph Wulf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger.

Wulf, Christoph, 1944-

Series:

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 21.

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Image (Philosophy).

Imagination.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the Imagination / Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf 1

Part I Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity

Introduction 21

2 Imagination / Gert Mattenklott 25

3 Aesthetic Immanence / Georges Didi-Huberman 42

4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural Innovation / Dieter Mersch 56

5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not There / Ludger Schwarte 65

Part II A Look at Pictures-Pictures Look Back

Introduction 79

6 What Is: Seeing an Image? / Marie Jose Mondzain 81

7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the Gaze / Hans Belting 93

8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern China / Mathias Obert 116

9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences / David Poeppel, Clare Stroud 135

Part III Body Images and Body Imaginations

Introduction 155

10 The Neapolitan Gesture / Gunter Gebauer 157

11 Image of Social Life / Christoph Wulf 166

12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in Motion / Erika Fischer-Lichte 178

13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary / K. Ludwig Pfeiffer 188

14 Ferocious Images / Peter Sloterdijk 202

Part IV Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images

Introduction 217

15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image / Gottfried Boehm 219

16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images / Bernd Huppauf 230

17 A Small History (of) Still Passing / Rebecca Schneider 254

18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary Texts / Gabriele Brandstetter 270

19 Kierkegaard's Shadow Figures / Martin Puchner 283

Part V Constructions of the Visual

Introduction 297

20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of Terror / W.J.T. Mitchell 299

21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film / Gertrud Koch 314

22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis / Roland Posner, Dagmar Schmauks 323

23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific Objectivity / Britta Schinzel 339.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415990936

0415990939

OCLC:

243674730