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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.

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'At the end of this wonderful journey through the theories of imagination and the various types of imaginaries, one is certainly fascinated by a polysemic view of the concept of imagination. Moser and Sukla have managed to find the best way to organise and channel a multitude of expert opinions towards a single goal: the revival of interest in the subject of imagination and its profound meaning in human life.' - Carlo Alessandro Caccia, in: enthymema (2021).

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Keith Moser, Ph.D. (2007), The University of Tennessee, is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has published seven full-length book projects including The Encyclopedic Philosophy of Michel Serres (2016), sixty-six articles, and numerous book chapters. Ananta Ch. Sukla, Ph.D. (1974), Jadavpur University, India, is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, India. He is the author of numerous books including Art and Representation, Art and Experience, Art and Essence, and Fiction and Art. Contributors are: David Konstan, Claude Calame, Allen Speight, Adrienne Mayor, Charles Altieri, Jody Azzouni, Warren Heiti, Carol Steinberg Gould, Rob van Gerwen, Michel Dion, Wendy Wheeler, Fiora Salis, Justin Humphreys, Keith Moser, Victor E. Taylor, Erik Bormanis, David Collins, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Samuel Kimball, Chandra Kavanagh, Dominic Gregory, Jiri Benovksy, David Fenner, Deborah Fillerup Weagel, Renee Conroy, Roderick Nicholls, Ton Kruse, Riyukta Raghunath, Arindam Chakrabarti, Yanping Gao, Amy Lee, Ali Hussain, Marion Renauld, Jesse Graves, Umar Timol, Louise Dupré, Lisa Fay Coutley

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