The Politics of Imagination (Hardcover)

1: From imagination to the imaginary and beyond: towards a theory of imaginal politics, CHIARA BOTTICI AND BENOIT CHALLAND; 2: Politics at its best: reasons that move the imagination, ALESSANDRO FERRARA ; 3: The politics of imagination: Spinoza and the origins of critical theory, THOMAS HIPPLER; 4: From soul to mind: psychology and political imagination, ADRIANO BUGLIANI; 5: Imagination, imaginary and the bioeconomic turn of cognitive capitalism; 6: Imagining the west, perceiving race: social sciences and political imagination, ALANA LENTIN; 7: Politics and the Messianic imagination, ARMANDO SALVATORE; 8: Religion and the struggle for people’s imagination: the case of contemporary Islamism, BENOIT CHALLAND; 9: Modern politics and the historical imaginary, HAYDEN WHITE; 10: Literature as public reasoning in the political struggles over imagination, MEILI STEELE; 11: Feminist imagination: the aesthetic role of critique and representation, MARIA PIA LARA; 12: Visual studies and global imagination, SUSAN BUCK-MORSS.