Imagination in politics
Subtitle: freedom or domination?
By: Mihaela Czobor-Lupp
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780739199060
Subjects: Imagination; Political aspects; Imagery (Psychology); Liberty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why does liberal-democratic politics need creative imagination?; title: The dangers and promises of imagination in politics; title: Habermas and Bakhtin: discourse ethics, imagination, and intercultural understanding; title: Arendt on the world-creating power of imagination as an antidote to the totalitarian temptations of politics; title: Kant and Schiller on the civil power of imagination; title: Herder on the role of imagination, language, and culture in the formation of humanity; title: Nietzsche on the role of imagination in modern liberal-democracies; title: Heidegger on political aestheticism and poetic care; title: Conclusions: The promise of benign public imagination for the contemporary world.