2. From Imagination to the Imaginary and Beyond?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Imagining
6. 1. From Phantasia to Imagination 13
7. 2. From Imagination to the Imaginary and Beyond? 32
8. 3. Toward a Theory of the Imaginal 54
9. Part 2. Politics
10. 4. A Genealogy of Politics: From Its Invention to the Biopolitical Turn 73
11. 5. Imaginal Politics 90
12. 6. Contemporary Transformations Between Spectacle and Virtuality 106
13. Part 3. The Global Spectacle
14. 7. The Politics of the Past: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations 125
15. 8. The Repositioning of Religion in the Public Sphere: Imaginal Consequences 143
16. 9. Imagining Human Rights: Gender, Race, and Class 161
17. The Freedom of Equals 178
18. Notes 203
19. Bibliography 233
20. Index 253