Imagination and art : explorations in contemporary theory / edited by Keith Moser and Ananta Ch. Sukla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moser, Keith A., editor.

Sukla, Ananta Charana, 1942-2020, editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy and religion ; Volume 351.

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy and religion ; Volume 351

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Bril Rodopi, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Men

Reshmi 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 Gerwen

15 Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination

Roderick Nicholls

Part 5: Postmodern Perspectives

16 Simulacral Imagination and the Nexus of Power in a Post-marxist Universe

Keith Moser

17 Jean-François Lyotard, the Radical Imagination, and the Aesthetic of the Differend

Victor E. Taylor

18 The Possibility of a Productive Imagination in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari

Erik Bormanis

Part 6: Imagination in Scientific Modeling and Biosemiotics

19 Of Predators and Prey: Imagination in Scientific Modeling

Fiora Salis

20 Geometry and the Imagination

Justin Humphreys

21 Art and Imagination: The Evolution of Meanings

Wendy Wheeler

Part 7: Aesthetic Perspectives

22 Image, Image-making and Imagination

Dominic Gregory

23 Depiction, Imagination, and Photography

Jiri Benovksy

24 Imagination and Identification in Photography and Film

David Fenner

25 Imagination in Musical Composition, Performance, and Listening: John Cage’s Blurring of Boundaries in Music and Life in 4′33″

Deborah Fillerup Weagel

26 Kinesthetic Imagining and Dance Appreciation

Renee M. Conroy

27 Imagination in Games: Formulation, Re-actualization and Gaining a World

Ton Kruse

28 “‘I AM not mad, most noble Festus.’ No. But I have been”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Complex, Imaginative Worlds of Sarban’s The Sound of his Horn

Riyukta Raghunath

Part 8: Non-western Perspectives

29 The Deep Frivolity of Life: An Indian Aesthetic Phenomenology of Fun

Arindam Chakrabarti

30 The Symbolic Force of Rocks in the Chinese Imagination

Yanping Gao

31 Magic from the Repressed: Imagination and Memories in Contemporary Japanese Literary Narratives

Amy Lee

32 The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾan into Ibn al-ʿArabi’

Ali Hussain

Part 9: Artists Reflect on Imagination: An Imaginative Epilogue

33 Free Thinking about Imagination: How is it to Imagine What Imagination is?

Marion Renauld

34 The Nativity of Images

35 Signal: Poetry and Imagination

Jesse Graves

36 The Echo of Voices

Umar Timol

37 Poem, Liberty

Louise Dupré

38 Why to Wish for the Witch

Lisa Fay Coutley

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-43635-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004436350 DOI