Social Routes of the Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Pier Luca Marzo and Luca Mori Klappentext Emphasizing imaginaries as an essential tool in deep understanding of social phenomena, the essays in this volume address socio-anthropological environments; collective dynamics of social integration; mass media metamorphosis; politics legitimation processes; symbolic dimension of economics and material culture; and representation of otherness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Meo 10: Imaginaries of Otherness in Complex Societies, Francesca Colella 11: The Complex of Cain, the Tension of Abel: Space, City, Imaginary, Pier Paolo Zampieri About the Contributors Index

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• Authors: Pier Luca Mori Marzo
• Assisted by: Pier Luca Marzo (Editor), Luca Mori (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781538175118
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7511-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Social Imaginaries
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism