Politics of Imagination

Name: Politics of Imagination
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ISBN: 9780415815284

ISBN-10: 0415815282

ISBN-13: 9780415815284

Edition: 2011

Authors: Chiara Bottici, Benoï¿½t Challand

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The Politics of Imaginationoffers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives, the political role of imagination has undergone a massive quantitative and a qualitative change. As such, there has been a revival of interest in the concept of imagination, as the intimate connections between our capacity to form images and politics becomes more and more evident. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical outlooks,…

Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




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