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dc.contributor.authorForrest, Tara
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-11 03:00:27
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T08:47:58Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T08:47:58Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier1007459
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22703
dc.description.abstractThis book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own experiences and memories. Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects that span a broad range of historical and thematic contexts (including topics as diverse as literature, children's play, film, photography, history, and television) the book charts the extent to which the concept of imagination plays a central role in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge's explorations of a mode of perception and experience which could serve as a catalyst for the creation and sustenance of a desire for a different kind of future.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKultur- und Medientheorie
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherMovie
dc.subject.otherMedia
dc.subject.otherCulture
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherImagination
dc.subject.otherWalter Benjamin
dc.subject.otherSiegfried Kracauer
dc.subject.otherAlexander Kluge
dc.subject.otherAesthetics
dc.subject.otherFilm
dc.subject.otherMedia Theory
dc.subject.otherMedia Philosophy
dc.subject.otherCultural Theory
dc.subject.otherMedia Studies
dc.titleThe Politics of Imagination
dc.title.alternativeBenjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14361/9783839406816
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c
oapen.relation.isbn9783899426816
oapen.pages198
oapen.place.publicationBielefeld


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