Politics of Imagination

<p><em>The Politics of Imagination</em> offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly central place of the media in our lives the political role of imagination has undergone a massive quantitative and a qualitative change. As such there has been a revival of interest in the concept of imagination as the intimate connections between our capacity to form images and politics becomes more and more evident. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical outlooks <em>The Politics of Imagination</em> examines how the power of imagination reverberates in the various ambits of social and political life: in law history art gender economy religion and the natural sciences. And it will be of considerable interest to those with contemporary interests in philosophy political philosophy political science legal theory gender studies sociology nationalism identity studies cultural studies and media studies.</p>