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Imagination in politics : freedom or domination? /

Imagination is a complex and ambiguous culture-making power that is a rather marginal concept in contemporary political theory. This book addresses how imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in liberal-democratic politics, and argues for a benign public employment of images and n...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Czobor-Lupp, Mihaela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Introduction: Why Does Liberal-Democratic Politics Need Creative Imagination?
  • The Dangers and Promises of Imagination in Politics
  • Habermas and Bakhtin: Discourse Ethics, Imagination, and Intercultural Understanding
  • Arendt on the World-Creating Power of Imagination as an Antidote to the Totalitarian Temptations of Politics
  • Kant and Schiller on the Civil Power of Imagination
  • Herder on the Role of Imagination, Language, and Culture in the Formation of Humanity
  • Nietzsche on the Role of Imagination in Modern Liberal-Democracies
  • Heidegger on Political Aestheticism and Poetic Care
  • Conclusions: The Promise of Benign Public Imagination for the Contemporary World
  • Bibliography
  • Index.