Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Imagining -- 1. From Phantasia to Imagination -- 2. From Imagination to the Imaginary and Beyond? -- 3. Toward a Theory of the Imaginal -- pt. 2 Politics -- 4. A Genealogy of Politics: From Its Invention to the Biopolitical Turn -- 5. Imaginal Politics -- 6. Contemporary Transformations Between Spectacle and Virtuality -- pt. 3 The Global Spectacle -- 7. The Politics of the Past: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations -- 8. The Repositioning of Religion in the Public Sphere: Imaginal Consequences -- 9. Imagining Human Rights: Gender, Race, and Class
Summary
Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh insight into the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. Bottici begins by defining the difference between the imaginal and the imaginary, locating the
