International Journal of Social Imaginaries
The International Journal of Social Imaginaries offers the premier scholarly forum for the interdisciplinary and diverse interest in social imaginaries, capturing increasingly prominent and versatile contributions in one globally accessible journal. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries seeks to bring theoretical and analytical clarity in discussions on imaginaries, carefully distinguishing the concept from related notions, such as culture, representation, ideology, and identity. It provides a forum for theoretical and conceptual debates, as well as empirically driven studies, and invites contributions from a range of disciplines and with a variety of foci (from the philosophical/theoretical to the empirical; related to meaning, rationality, and creativity on individual and collective levels, but also in relation to politics, governance, and institutions). It publishes not only prominent but also emerging authors in the human and social sciences who are shaping the field of social imaginaries.
The journal is guided by the goal to reflect on the human condition, in past, present, and future societies and constellations, without limiting itself to any geographical or sociocultural region. It aims to pursue intertwining and overlapping debates on social imaginaries and the imagination. This includes a focus on intersecting debates on cultural varieties of meaning, power, religion, and socially instituted worlds of action, while promoting fresh approaches to the key challenges of the current age. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries includes in its focal range discussions of historical ruptures in societal meaning (as with the emergence of early democracy, modernity, and capitalist society) but equally discusses critical contemporary shifts in meaning-making, related to, for example, (post-)democracy and populism, globalized capitalism, environmentalism, and terrorism and human rights. The journal’s field of interest includes contemporary debates concerning specific concrete issues and their effects on how we view our relationships to the social and natural environment, as well as broader problematics, such as modernity and civilizations, on the one hand, and the 'meaning of meaning’ and the question of the lifeworld, on the other. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries demonstrates that researching social imaginaries is crucial to allowing for a comprehensive and rigorous understanding of existing collective systems of meaning in — and across — societies as well as of shifting and newly emerging meanings, in particular in relation to constellations of power, action, and the self. Such understanding is all the more important in distinctive periods — such as in our current epoch – in which taken-for-granted meanings are in a state of rapid transformation.
The International Journal of Social Imaginaries welcomes scholarly contributions that engage with imaginaries in a variety of ways and that deal with theoretical/philosophical, methodological and/or empirical matters and may relate to different levels, such as the individual, collective — societal or state — as well as cross-border/cross-regional and transnational levels of investigation. The journal will further launch calls for thematic special issues on topical themes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary capitalism, regional foci on Russia and Eastern Europe, China and East Asia, the United States and the Americas, populism, the crisis of democracy, social media, and others.
The journal will consider the following types of submissions:
• Research articles (8,000-10,000 words; exceptions will be considered)
• Review essays (maximum of 5,000 words)
• Single-book reviews (maximum of 2,000 words)
• Varia: Book review fora, roundtables, interviews, analyses, and commentaries are also welcome and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Address: Italy
The journal is guided by the goal to reflect on the human condition, in past, present, and future societies and constellations, without limiting itself to any geographical or sociocultural region. It aims to pursue intertwining and overlapping debates on social imaginaries and the imagination. This includes a focus on intersecting debates on cultural varieties of meaning, power, religion, and socially instituted worlds of action, while promoting fresh approaches to the key challenges of the current age. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries includes in its focal range discussions of historical ruptures in societal meaning (as with the emergence of early democracy, modernity, and capitalist society) but equally discusses critical contemporary shifts in meaning-making, related to, for example, (post-)democracy and populism, globalized capitalism, environmentalism, and terrorism and human rights. The journal’s field of interest includes contemporary debates concerning specific concrete issues and their effects on how we view our relationships to the social and natural environment, as well as broader problematics, such as modernity and civilizations, on the one hand, and the 'meaning of meaning’ and the question of the lifeworld, on the other. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries demonstrates that researching social imaginaries is crucial to allowing for a comprehensive and rigorous understanding of existing collective systems of meaning in — and across — societies as well as of shifting and newly emerging meanings, in particular in relation to constellations of power, action, and the self. Such understanding is all the more important in distinctive periods — such as in our current epoch – in which taken-for-granted meanings are in a state of rapid transformation.
The International Journal of Social Imaginaries welcomes scholarly contributions that engage with imaginaries in a variety of ways and that deal with theoretical/philosophical, methodological and/or empirical matters and may relate to different levels, such as the individual, collective — societal or state — as well as cross-border/cross-regional and transnational levels of investigation. The journal will further launch calls for thematic special issues on topical themes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary capitalism, regional foci on Russia and Eastern Europe, China and East Asia, the United States and the Americas, populism, the crisis of democracy, social media, and others.
The journal will consider the following types of submissions:
• Research articles (8,000-10,000 words; exceptions will be considered)
• Review essays (maximum of 5,000 words)
• Single-book reviews (maximum of 2,000 words)
• Varia: Book review fora, roundtables, interviews, analyses, and commentaries are also welcome and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Address: Italy
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Unlike some, his philosophical temperament has always been to problematize canons and received approaches. Everything is – and should be – put into question. Intellectual autonomy and rigor are his hallmark. Orthodoxy is not. The epigraph to his first Patočka essay – ‘A philosopher must not take orders from anybody, not even from God’ (Patočka 1929) – sums it up nicely.
The International Journal of Social Imaginaries emerges from the journal Social Imaginaries, which consisted in an effort to gather philosophical, social-theoretical, and broader social-scientific research on the role of the creative imagination and of social imaginaries. A growing variety of approaches and disciplines focus on social imaginaries as ways in which people collectively and pre-theoretically make sense of their social and personal existence, to constitute a collective space of meanings or semantic space for co-being.1 The International Journal of Social Imaginaries intends to build on the earlier publication effort, and helps to create a global platform for a dynamic and evermore interdisciplinary and intercultural interest in social imaginaries and aims to capture the increasingly prominent and interdisciplinary contributions in one globally accessible journal. In this, the International Journal of Social Imaginaries seeks to bring theoretical and analytical clarity in discussions on the imaginaries. It intends to do so by means of publishing established and emerging authors in human and social sciences who are shaping the field of social imaginaries.
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Although the concept of productive imagination plays a fundamental role in Kant, German Idealism, Romanticism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, the meaning of this central concept remains largely undetermined. The significance of productive imagination is therefore all-too-often either inflated or underrated. The articles collected in this volume trace the development of productive imagination through the history of philosophy, identify the different meanings this concept has been ascribed in different philosophical frameworks, and raise the question anew concerning this concept's philosophical significance. How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism. The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. "The Productive Imagination" offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.
"Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination" addresses the diverse ways in which productive imagination has been conceptualized in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Besides exploring the different meanings that the concept of productive imagination has been given in Kant’s own writings, the volume explores imagination’s poetic, historical and generative dimensions as well as shows its significance for the human and social sciences; it demonstrates its relevance in the formation of political concepts as well as addresses productive imagination’s significance at the levels of pre-linguistic understanding and kinaesthetic experience.
The essays here presented focus on highly unorthodox conceptions of productive imagination, which in various ways have imploded the conceptual dualisms that pervade Kant’s philosophy: sensibility vs. understanding, phenomenon vs. noumenon, nature vs. freedom, theoretical vs. practical reason. Here productive imagination is conceived as a constitutive power that shapes the human experience of the actual world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge and understanding.
Social Imaginaries // Volume Two, Number Two, 2016 by International Journal of Social Imaginaries
Unlike some, his philosophical temperament has always been to problematize canons and received approaches. Everything is – and should be – put into question. Intellectual autonomy and rigor are his hallmark. Orthodoxy is not. The epigraph to his first Patočka essay – ‘A philosopher must not take orders from anybody, not even from God’ (Patočka 1929) – sums it up nicely.
The International Journal of Social Imaginaries emerges from the journal Social Imaginaries, which consisted in an effort to gather philosophical, social-theoretical, and broader social-scientific research on the role of the creative imagination and of social imaginaries. A growing variety of approaches and disciplines focus on social imaginaries as ways in which people collectively and pre-theoretically make sense of their social and personal existence, to constitute a collective space of meanings or semantic space for co-being.1 The International Journal of Social Imaginaries intends to build on the earlier publication effort, and helps to create a global platform for a dynamic and evermore interdisciplinary and intercultural interest in social imaginaries and aims to capture the increasingly prominent and interdisciplinary contributions in one globally accessible journal. In this, the International Journal of Social Imaginaries seeks to bring theoretical and analytical clarity in discussions on the imaginaries. It intends to do so by means of publishing established and emerging authors in human and social sciences who are shaping the field of social imaginaries.
Find more information about this book here: www.rowmaninternational.com/buy-books/product-details/?productId=3-156-fd5e1016-0462-473e-a654-fedd1d78bbf2
Although the concept of productive imagination plays a fundamental role in Kant, German Idealism, Romanticism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, the meaning of this central concept remains largely undetermined. The significance of productive imagination is therefore all-too-often either inflated or underrated. The articles collected in this volume trace the development of productive imagination through the history of philosophy, identify the different meanings this concept has been ascribed in different philosophical frameworks, and raise the question anew concerning this concept's philosophical significance. How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism. The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. "The Productive Imagination" offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.
"Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination" addresses the diverse ways in which productive imagination has been conceptualized in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Besides exploring the different meanings that the concept of productive imagination has been given in Kant’s own writings, the volume explores imagination’s poetic, historical and generative dimensions as well as shows its significance for the human and social sciences; it demonstrates its relevance in the formation of political concepts as well as addresses productive imagination’s significance at the levels of pre-linguistic understanding and kinaesthetic experience.
The essays here presented focus on highly unorthodox conceptions of productive imagination, which in various ways have imploded the conceptual dualisms that pervade Kant’s philosophy: sensibility vs. understanding, phenomenon vs. noumenon, nature vs. freedom, theoretical vs. practical reason. Here productive imagination is conceived as a constitutive power that shapes the human experience of the actual world by forming the contours of action, intuition, knowledge and understanding.
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The International Journal of Social Imaginaries is celebrating this event with a series of critical interventions by renowned Ricoeur scholars. In the current issue of the journal (Vol. 3:1), George H. Taylor and Saulius Geniusas have highlighted the respective problematics of the depth dimension and sedimentation in their responses to the Imagination Lectures. Jean-Luc Amalric has written a “Reply” to Taylor and Geniusas, which the journal will publish early next year (Vol. 4:1), and which will be previewed in the seminar discussion.
In this second installment of the “Meet the Authors” virtual seminar (hosted by the International Journal of Social Imaginaries and Brill Publishers), authors Raquel Bouso and John Krummel, and respondent Jodie Heap, will discuss the directions in which two thinkers of the second generation of the Kyoto School, former students of Kyoto School founder Nishida Kitarō, Miki Kiyoshi and Nishitani Keiji, developed the concept.