Practicing and Placing Imaginaries : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernandez, Gustavo Gutierrez, author.

Contributor:

Stackmann, Ulla.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Summary:

The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challenge perspectives which characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Rather, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Practicing and Imagining

Writing and Reading Imaginary Worlds

Imaging Authors and the Practice of Writing

Works Cited

Section I: Placing and Practicing Imagination

Imagining, Theorizing, and Academic Writing

Introduction

1. Placing Einbildungskraft

2. Praxeology as Negative Epistemology

3. An Empirical Desideratum

4. Writing Theory

5. Writing Practices and Epistemic Processes

Sight Beyond Site

Imagination and Experience: Who Knows Best?

Thinking Together: Alienation and Solidarity

The Rational Imagination: Situation, Speculation, Solidarity

Situated Imagination and Multiple Consciousness: Who Imagines What?

Conclusion

Thought Experiments

1. Introduction

2. The Structure of Thought Experiments

3. The Scenario is Imaginary

4. Thought Experiments as Imaginative Practices

5. The Dynamics Between Author and Reader

6. A Social Imaginative Practice: Interpretation, Discussion, and Variants

7. Conclusions Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

3-8394-7585-6

OCLC:

1514489347