Modern Social Imaginaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Social Imaginaries write by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2004. Modern Social Imaginaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVAn accounting of the varying forms of social imaginary that have underpinned the rise of Western modernity./div
Social Imaginaries
Social Imaginaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Imaginaries write by Suzi Adams. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Social Imaginaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World
Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World write by Hans Alma. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodological tools. This volume argues that the concept of ‘social imaginary’ as it is used by Charles Taylor, is of utmost importance as a methodological tool to understand these dynamics. The first section is dedicated to the conceptual clarification of Taylor's notion of social imaginaries both through a historical study of their genealogy and through conceptual analysis. In the second section, we clarify the relation of ‘social imaginaries’ to the concept of (religious) worldviewing, understood as a process of truth seeking. Furthermore, we discuss the practical usefulness of the concept of social imaginaries for cultural scientists, by focusing on the concept of human rights as a secular social imaginary. In the third and final section, we relate Taylor's view on the role of social imaginaries and the new paths it opens up for religious studies to other analyses of the secular-religious divide, as they nowadays mainly come to the fore in the debates on what is coined as the ‘post-secular.’
Social Imaginaries of Space
Social Imaginaries of Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Imaginaries of Space write by Bernard Debarbieux. This book was released on 2019. Social Imaginaries of Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light.
Roman Social Imaginaries
Roman Social Imaginaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Social Imaginaries write by Clifford Ando. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Roman Social Imaginaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman Empire as a political construct. Beginning in early Roman history, Ando shows how the expansion of the empire into new territories led the Romans to develop and exploit Latin's extraordinary capacity for abstraction. In this way, laws and institutions invented for use in a single Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.
