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Author:   Chiara Bottici (University of Florence, Italy) ,  Benoît Challand (University of Bologna, Italy and Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Birkbeck Law Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415815284

ISBN 10:   0415815282
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: From imagination to the imaginary and beyond: towards a theory of imaginal politics, CHIARA BOTTICI AND BENOÎT CHALLAND; 2: Politics at its best: reasons that move the imagination, ALESSANDRO FERRARA ; 3: The politics of imagination: Spinoza and the origins of critical theory, THOMAS HIPPLER; 4: From soul to mind: psychology and political imagination, ADRIANO BUGLIANI; 5: Imagination, imaginary and the bioeconomic turn of cognitive capitalism; 6: Imagining the west, perceiving race: social sciences and political imagination, ALANA LENTIN; 7: Politics and the Messianic imagination, ARMANDO SALVATORE; 8: Religion and the struggle for people’s imagination: the case of contemporary Islamism, BENOÎT CHALLAND; 9: Modern politics and the historical imaginary, HAYDEN WHITE; 10: Literature as public reasoning in the political struggles over imagination, MEILI STEELE; 11: Feminist imagination: the aesthetic role of critique and representation, MARÍA PÍA LARA; 12: Visual studies and global imagination, SUSAN BUCK-MORSS.

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Chiara Bottici is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the New School For Social Research. Benoît Challand is visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Politics of the New School for Social Research and Lecturer at the University of Bologna.

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