Imagination

The Problem of Cinematic Imagination

by Rafe McGregor

Contemporary Aesthetics 10 (2012).

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to identify the problem of cinematic imagination, and then to propose a... more The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to identify the problem of cinematic imagination, and then to propose a satisfactory solution.  In part one I analyze the respective claims of Dominic McIver Lopes and Roger Scruton, both of whom question the scope of imagination in film, when compared to other art forms, on the basis of its perceptual character.  In order to address these concerns I develop a hybrid of Gregory Currie’s model of cinematic imagination and Kendall Walton’s theory of make-believe in section two.  Section three offers a reply to Lopes and Scruton, examining the problem in terms of the tension between the normativity of films as props and the employment of the creative imagination by audiences.  I conclude with a solution that admits of two incompatible conceptions of cinematic imagination.

On Stupidity

by Magdalena Wisniowska

Copy of a paper presented in 2011 as part of InC. unpublished

‘On stupidity’ is a close reading of two short passages from Adorno’s Minima Moralia: sections 79 (Intellectus... more ‘On stupidity’ is a close reading of two short passages from Adorno’s Minima Moralia: sections 79 (Intellectus sacrificium intellectus) and 127 (Wishful thinking).  In these sections, Adorno discusses the relationship between intelligence and stupidity.  My reading will focus on the sections’ problematic claim: that intellect and stupidity are essentially the same.  Both are different outcomes of the same ‘forceful nature’. 

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Face, Counterface, Counterfeit. The Lost Silver Visage of the Reliquary of St. Anthony’s Jawbone

by Francesco Lucchini

Published in in Meaning in Motion. Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art and Architecture, edited by N. Zchomelidse and G. Freni (Princeton, 2011)

Poetic Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead

by Matthew David Segall

sketching the speculative platonism of Schelling and Whitehead as it relates to the poetic imagination.

The Good Manager: An Archetypical Quest for Morally Sustainable Leadership

by Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

Co-authored with Monika Kostera
forthcoming in Organization Studies (early view available online)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612445124

This paper explores the potential for morally sustainable leadership, i.e. leadership with an awareness of both light... more This paper explores the potential for morally sustainable leadership, i.e. leadership with an awareness of both light and dark sides contained in the role of the leader, as symbolized by the archetype of the king. A narrative enquiry aiming at the study of fictive stories authored by management theorists and practitioners from different contexts, interweaving collective individual elements, brings to light how issues of leadership goodness are related to each other and to other themes. The stories are presented as archetypical tales, that is, stories that touch profound aspects of culture and the psyche. They reveal what happens when people are asked to imagine a good manager, and how this results in tragic ironic representations, rather than tales of straightforward goodness.

An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

by Arezou Zalipour

Abstract of my PhD thesis that was completed in 2008. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested to know more about my PhD thesis. I am trying to publish it as a book. Your kind suggestions are most welcomed.

An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

Arezou Zalipour, PhD
more An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

Arezou Zalipour, PhD
arezouzalipour@gmail.com


This study examines notions of poetic imagination towards exploring its contemporary representations. It takes its initial point of departure with a historical and conceptual survey that traces the concepts and theories of both imagination and poetic imagination. The literature survey demonstrates that poetic imagination has not been featured in the theories of modern and contemporary poetry, barring the Romantics who celebrated the creative nature of imagination. Therefore, the existing concepts, ideas and theories of poetic imagination are largely unstructured and incoherent concepts inherited by contemporary poets. However, there are some researches on the concept of imagination in poetry in modern and contemporary philosophy and psychology. In the twentieth century, the use of poetic image in philosophical studies as well as the relations between imagination and reality have provided some insights into modern conceptions of poetic imagination. This thesis examines, discusses and collates the principles and concepts relevant to imagination to discover whether these notions can explain and define the nature of poetic imagination in contemporary poetry. Fundamentally, the thesis develops an approach for the exploration of contemporary notions of poetic imagination. The approach is drawn from the existing concepts and theories of imagination and poetic imagination. The approach is constructed featuring the elements of types of images, features of poetic imagination and modes of imagination.

These three categories shape the components of the theoretical framework and also form the three levels of the analytical procedure of the approach. In level one, we look at types of images in a poem which leads us to draw conclusions about features of poetic imagination in level two. In level three, the findings in levels one and two will then help us to determine the apparent and dominant mode of imagination in the poem/text. What should emerge by the end of the analysis is a special opportunity to look at how (creative) imagination is manifested in a poem/text. The approach was applied to a corpus of contemporary poetry in order to show the application of the approach and the way analysis is carried put. The assessment of the approach on a corpus of contemporary poetry was also in an attempt to elucidate the dimensions of relationships between the imagined, the imaged, and the real.

The research identifies that imagination in contemporary poetry moves more towards imaging rather than poetic imagination. In other words, imagination shows greater affinity to imaging in contemporary poetry. The significant contribution of the thesis is that it offers a continuum called Imaginiuum with one end as imaging, and poetic imagination as the other. Imaginiuum is a paradigm that describes contemporary notions of imagination in poetry.

Call for papers - The Inner Revolution (16th and 17th century) [English version]

by Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia

This tenth issue of Lo Sguardo will be dedicated to the “inner revolution” of he 16th and 17th century; in particular it will delve into the matter of the interiorization of the world” and the development of an “individual interiority” in the period included betweenthe end of the Renaissance and the early modern Age. With this purpose the issue will consider the “psychology of the soul” livering over the role of the “auxialiry faculties” –such as memory, imagination, fantasy – in relation to the notion of apprehensio, to the practice of spiritual exercises and to the concept of homo faber sui.

Accepted languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German
Deadline for the delivery: September, 10th 2012

Please feel free to contact us for any further informations: redazione@losguardo.net

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Historia sincera: ermeneutica dell'immaginazione in Spinoza e Vico

by Andrea Sangiacomo

Bollettino del Centro di Studi Vichiani 41 (1), 2011, pp. 43-73.

«HISTORIA SINCERA»: HERMENEUTICS OF IMAGINATION ACCORDING TO SPINOZA AND VICO. According to Derrida’s Of Grammatology... more «HISTORIA SINCERA»: HERMENEUTICS OF IMAGINATION ACCORDING TO SPINOZA AND VICO. According to Derrida’s Of Grammatology the Western ‘logocentrism’ represents the endeavor to conceives of language as disembodied and abstract. Be that as it may, as far as I am concerned, this interpretation turns out to be misleading. I will firstly sketch the main features of the analysis of this topic provided by Baruch Spinoza: his attempt to separate reason and imagination notwithstanding, his philosophy as a whole will be shown to tend to a considerable overlap rather than a total separation. Secondly, I will scrutinize the concept of ‘poetic logic’ developed by Gian Battista Vico, and I will contend that this logic might provide a convincing explanation for the ultimate a-rationality of the language. In conclusion, I will show how the debate considered might lay the foundations of a new hermeneutics that might be able to overcome the traditional dualism between logocentrism and relativism.

Exopedagogies and the Utopian Imagination: A Case Study in Faery Subcultures

by Richard Kahn

Co-authored with Tyson Lewis, Montclair State University (In Theory & Event), 2009

Global Affinities: Portuguese Marranos (Anusim), Traveling Jews, and Cultural Logics of Kinship (2011)

by Naomi Leite

Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.

This dissertation explores issues of identification, relatedness, and belonging on a global scale, through an... more This dissertation explores issues of identification, relatedness, and belonging on a global scale, through an ethnographic study of Portugal’s urban Marranos (descendants of fifteenth-century forced converts to Catholicism) and foreign Jews who travel from abroad to meet them. Although not Jewish according to Jewish law, given centuries of intermarriage, Marranos are nonetheless widely considered to be part of “the Jewish family,” “lost brethren” who should be welcomed back to the Jewish people. Many Jews view them within the metanarrative of Jewish destruction and survival, the “eternal spark” that remains despite the Inquisition’s attempted elimination of Judaism from the Portuguese landscape. However, for numerous local reasons the present-day Marranos are not welcomed by Portugal’s tiny normative Jewish community. As a result, the urban Marranos, who feel strongly that they are Jews by descent, turn to foreign Jewish travelers as sources of educational, spiritual, and material assistance in their bid to join the Jewish world and attain recognition as Jews in the present.

Based on two years of fieldwork in Marrano organizations in Lisbon and Porto and traveling alongside Jewish tourists and outreach workers, the dissertation undertakes a processual analysis of the constitution of ancestral Jewish identity and of the role of transnational, cross-cultural affective ties in affording a sense of global Jewish belonging. The primary questions driving this work are, first, how and why do far-flung people come to feel that they are related to one another, and what terms do they use to characterize and think through that feeling of relatedness? Second, to what extent are their perceptions of essential connection disrupted or transformed by face-to-face contact? By interrogating the cultural logics of kinship writ large—the language and conceptual frameworks people use to articulate and make sense of their feelings of relatedness to one another—and then examining how those logics play out “on the ground,” this study provides a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of the mechanisms through which global and ancestral imaginings become concretized in social interaction. Ultimately, I argue, physical proximity remains the productive sphere for identification and belonging, even as global interconnection provides new opportunities for encounter.

"Middleton's Imagination"

by Douglas Bruster

Published in _The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton_, ed. Gary Taylor and Trish Thomas Henley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 518-34.

Often seen as a "realistic" observer of urban life, Thomas Middleton possessed a striking imagination. To... more Often seen as a "realistic" observer of urban life, Thomas Middleton possessed a striking imagination. To understand his works, we need to set aside the model of creativity we associate with Shakespeare. For "Middleton saw the world less as a stage than a game. His game board owes many of its sharp divisions and vicious perils to Calvinistic convictions about humanity's basic corruption" (from the Conclusion).

What symbols

by Dmitry Misyurov

This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response? This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response?

When Homer met Phantasia: Fiction, epic poetry and entertainment literature in Byzantium, "British Academy Review" 19 (2012), 42-45

by Aglae Pizzone

La obscenidad del Sujeto hegeliano. La" noche del mundo" y la experiencia de la pulsión de muerte

by Luis Felip

Bachelard, Interpretação, Subjetividade: a interação entre leitor e texto e o paradigma performativo nos estudos do imaginário.

by Marcus Mota

Nesse texto, procuro discutir, a partir de o Ar e os Sonhos, a proposta de Bachelard sobre a participação do leitor em... more Nesse texto, procuro discutir, a partir de o Ar e os Sonhos, a proposta de Bachelard sobre a participação do leitor em universo onírico textualizado de forma a contribuir para uma melhor contribuição dos questões recepcionais de sua obra.
Como provocação, demonstro como Bachelard aponta para um paradigma performativo ao tornar relevante na dinâmica  da leitura o papel ativo do leitor.

The Wings of Imagination - the missing link in the origin of consciousness?

by José Monserrat Neto

The Wings of Imagination - the missing link in the origin of consciousness?

by José Monserrat Neto

Evil, Ethics, and the Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney, Part I

by Ronald A. Kuipers

Part I of an interview with the Philosopher Richard Kearney on the theme of evil.

From Poetic Imagination to Imaging: Contemporary Notions of Poetic Imagination in Poetry

by Arezou Zalipour

Arezou Zalipour. 2011. “From Imaging to Poetic Imagination: Contemporary Notions of Poetic Imagination”. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 481-494.

When we consider what constitutes the essence of poetry, we are confronted with a variety of questions none of which... more When we consider what constitutes the essence of poetry, we are confronted with a variety of questions none of which may be answered with final satisfaction. One feature that seems to emerge repeatedly through time is the notion of imagination and the term ‘poetic imagination’ to depict the emotional, imaginative, intellectual and the expressive language used to reflect the writer’s consciousness. This paper primarily discusses the core finding of my research in the concepts, theories and ideas of poetic imagination. The research characterizes a series of modes of imagination in contemporary poetry. These modes have been drawn from the existing notions and concepts of poetic imagination. The research identifies that imagination in contemporary poetry moves more towards imaging rather than poetic imagination. In other words, imagination shows greater affinity to imaging in contemporary poetry. This paper aims to present the significant contribution of the overall research which is the conceptualization of a paradigm of various modes of imagination in contemporary poetry, with imaging and poetic imagination as its two ends. Other modes of creative imagination reside between imaging and poetic imagination.

[Keywords: contemporary notions of poetic imagination, modes of imagination, imaging, creative imagination, poetry, theories of imagination]