Overview
- Analyzes imagination as a pulsatile force embedded in words, images, dance, and music
- Develops a non-representationalist theory of imagination and the imaginary
- Studies creativity across a variety of artistic media including music, literature, and visual art
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Theoretical Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary and Disimagination
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Emergences – Resurgences. Pulsatile Flow
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Tearing Mimesis – Ways of Disimagination and Re-incarnation of Image
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Vibrant Mimesis, New Materialism, and Otherness
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About this book
Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy. Chapters of this volume engage with the overarching theme of imagination as a pulsatile force embedded in words, images, and all imaginative modes of instantiation of the work of art in their elemental aspects, expressed in visual arts, and literature, as well as bodily schemata of choreographic and musical performances. The papers employ contrasting and complementing methods from literary studies and image theory, especially phenomenology and new materialism, such as G. Bachelard and M. Merleau-Ponty, G. Bataille, J. Kristeva, P. Lacoue-Labarthe and J. Sallis, G. Didi-Huberman, H. Belting and A. Warburg, J. Bennett and Jason M. Wirth, as well as performance studies. Chapters in this volume inquire into the imaginative forces that disrupt and disinhibit the traditional habits ofimagination to create pulsatile imaginaries, i.e., a dynamic process of “emergence-resurgence” of image manifested in the act of creation and in perception. This process does not properly imply a destruction of image, but rather a withdrawal of image from the realm of representation to give way to new images and new imaginative experiences. The newly coined term “rite of disimagination” points out to this operation, consecutively implying imagining and disimaging that both denies, as well as validates image – it valorizes matter. The affirmation of the materiality of image is “the re-incarnation of image.”
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Nicoletta Isar is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). She is author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and the books XOPÓΣ: The Dance of Adam. The Making of Byzantine Chorography (2011) and Elemental Chorology, Vignettes Imaginales (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary
Book Subtitle: Rites of Disimagination
Editors: Nicoletta Isar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49945-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49944-9Published: 13 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49947-0Due: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49945-6Published: 12 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 300
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Theory