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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.