Full Description
The question of imaginary starts where its opposition to reality ends. Once this opposition is dismissed, it becomes possible thinking of imaginary as a mean of construction and transformation of the social reality. A series of essays - regarding the taking form of socio-anthropological environments; the collective dynamics of social integration; the mass media metamorphosis; the politics legitimation processes; the symbolic dimension of economics and that of the material culture; the representation of otherness - trace an analytical perspective in which imaginary represents an essential tool for a deep understanding of social phenomena.
Contributors: Sergio Brancato, Francesca Colella, Stefano Cristante, Fabio D'Andrea, Valentina Grassi, Pier Luca Marzo, Milena Meo, Luca Mori, Maria Giovanna Musso, Domenico Secondulfo, Antonio Tramontana, and Pier Paolo Zampieri
Contents
Preface: For Sociology of the Imaginary and Depth Sociology, Domenico Secondulfo
Introduction: The Sociological Perspective of the Imaginary, Pier Luca Marzo and Luca Mori
1: The Imaginary Nature of the Social: A Morphological Approach, Pier Luca Marzo
2: The Power of Image: Imaginary, Knowledge and Method in the Social Creation of Reality, Fabio D'Andrea and Valentina Grassi
3: The Imaginary and The Social Bond: The unconscious life of representations, Luca Mori
4: Imaginary, Technology, and Social Change, Maria Giovanna Musso
5: Imaginary and Communication: From the corporal Device of Homo sapiens to the typographical imaginary of early modernity, Stefano Cristante
6: Imaginary and Communication: From the analogical body of technical reproducibility to the digital imaginary, Sergio Brancato
7: The Matter of Imaginary in the Dynamics and Tensions of the Social World, Antonio Tramontana
8: The Material and the Imaginary, Vincenzo Mele
9: The Imaginary Roots of Politics: A Weberian Reading, Milena Me
