| Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy Contributor(s): Murphy, Peter (Author), Peters, Michael Adrian (Author), Marginson, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433105292 ISBN-13: 9781433105296 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $55.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Aims & Objectives |
| Dewey: 303.48 |
| LCCN: 2010011400 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.30 lbs) 412 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks 'what advances the arts and sciences?' This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining-and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking: Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large scale. It examines the role of aesthetic, pictorial, digital, paradoxical and other imaginative styles of thinking, and the times and places in which such styles become socially prominent and a significant force in economic and cultural production. It looks at successful societies as they are approaching their peak, when new ideas are driving them forward. |