| Social Imaginaries: Critical Interventions Contributor(s): Adams, Suzi (Editor), Smith, Jeremy C. a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178660776X ISBN-13: 9781786607768 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Series: Social Imaginaries |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They include a new comparative approach to theorizing Castoriadis, Ricoeur, and Taylor; the rethinking of the creative imagination in relation to common sense; analyses of political imaginaries in neoliberal and constitutional contexts from perspectives drawing on Gauchet and Lefort; and the taking up questions of historical continuity and discontinuity in civilizational worlds. In addressing pressing questions concerning social imaginaries, the book advances the field as a whole. The book includes a Foreword by George H. Taylor. This book is a must-read for all scholars interested in social and political imaginaries and will appeal to researchers and graduate students working across a wide variety of disciplines in the human sciences. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adams, Suzi: - Suzi Adams is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Castoriadis's Ontology: Being and Creation (2011), and editor of Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts (2014) and Cornelius Castoriadis: Critical Encounters (a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory, 2012, co-edited with Ingerid Straume).Smith, Jeremy C. a.: - Jeremy C.A. Smith is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Federation University Australia and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published in European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory and is the author of Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (Brill, 2006) and Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal Social Imaginaries (Zeta Books). |