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Author:   Bernd Huppauf ,  Christoph Wulf
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   21
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9780415990936

ISBN 10:   0415990939
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   27 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the Imagination Bernd Huppauf and Christoph Wulf Part I: Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity Introduction to Part I 2 Imagination Gert Mattenklott 3 Aesthetic Immanence Georges Didi-Huberman 4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural Innovation Dieter Mersch 5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not There Ludger Schwarte Part II: A Look at Pictures – Pictures Look Back Introduction to Part II 6 What is: Seeing an Image? Marie José Mondzain 7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the Gaze Hans Belting 8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern China Mathias Obert 9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare Stroud Part III: Body Images and Body Imaginations Introduction to Part III 10 The Neapolitan Gesture Gunter Gebauer 11 Images of Social Life Christoph Wulf 12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in Motion Erika Fischer-Lichte 13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary K. Ludwig Pfeiffer 14 Ferocious Images Peter Sloterdijk Part IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images Introduction to Part IV 15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image Gottfried Boehm 16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images Bernd Huppauf 17 A Small History (of) Still Passing Rebecca Schneider 18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary Texts Gabriele Brandstetter 19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow Figures Martin Puchner Part V: Constructions of the Visual Introduction to Part V 20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of Terror W.J.T. Mitchell 21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film Gertrud Koch 22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis Roland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks 23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific Objectivity Britta Schinzel Notes on Contributors Index

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