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Imaginal Politics

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

By: Chiara Bottici

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Imaginal Politics

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

By: Chiara Bottici

Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh insight into the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. Bottici begins by defining the difference between the imaginal and the imaginary, locating the imaginalÕs root meaning in the image and its ability to both characterize a public and establish a set of activities within that public. She identifies the imaginalÕs critical role in powering representative democracies and its amplification through globalization. She then addresses the troublesome increase in images now mediating politics and the transformation of politics into empty spectacle. The spectacularization of politics has led to its virtualization, Bottici observes, transforming images into processes with an uncertain relationship to reality, and, while new media has democratized the image in a global society of the spectacle, the cloned image no longer mediates politics but does the act for us. Bottici concludes with politicsÕ current search for legitimacy through an invented ideal of tradition, a turn to religion, and the incorporation of human rights language.

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Columbia University Press

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0231157789

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A Feminist Mythology

By: Chiara Bottici

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A Feminist Mythology

By: Chiara Bottici

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of “womanhood” through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350095982

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A Philosophy of Political Myth

By: Chiara Bottici

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A Philosophy of Political Myth

By: Chiara Bottici

In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici shows that myth is a process, one of continuous work on a basic narrative pattern that responds to a need for significance. Human beings need meaning in order to master the world they live in, but they also need significance in order to live in a world that is less indifferent to them. This is particularly true in the realm of politics. Political myths are narratives through which we orient ourselves, and act and feel about our political world. Bottici shows that in order to come to terms with contemporary phenomena, such as the clash between civilizations, we need a Copernican revolution in political philosophy. If we want to save reason, we need to look at it from the standpoint of myth.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521876559

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9780521876551

Anarchafeminism

By: Chiara Bottici

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Anarchafeminism

By: Chiara Bottici

How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to unpack the ways different forms of oppression intersect with one another: class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, to name only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor, or arche, explaining the oppression of women, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of women, and that, in order to fight that, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. Anarchism needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all femina, but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become the privilege of a few. Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this new revolutionary vision, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few, but liberation for all living creatures from both capitalist exploitation and an androcentric politics of domination. Either all or none of us will be free.

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Imaginal Politics

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

By: Chiara Bottici

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Imaginal Politics

Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary

By: Chiara Bottici

Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political, Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. Bottici begins by defining the difference between the imaginal and the imaginary, locating the imaginal's root meaning in the image and its ability to both characterize a public and establish a set of activities within that public. She identifies the imaginal's critical role in powering representative democracies and its amplification through globalization. She then addresses the troublesome increase in images now mediating politics and the transformation of politics into empty spectacle. The spectacularization of politics has led to its virtualization, Bottici observes, transforming images into processes with an uncertain relationship to reality, and, while new media has democratized the image in a global society of the spectacle, the cloned image no longer mediates politics but does the act for us. Bottici concludes with politics' current search for legitimacy through an invented ideal of tradition, a turn to religion, and the incorporation of human rights language.

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Columbia University Press

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0231527810

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Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

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Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015618

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The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

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The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

This book re-examines the issue of the Clash of Civilizations between Islam and the West through the concept of myth. Examining how such beliefs spread in both a Western and a Muslim context, the book argues that it has become a strong political tool.

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Routledge

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0415573270

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Anarchafeminism

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Media Power and The Transformation of War

By: Chiara de Franco

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Media Power and The Transformation of War

By: Chiara de Franco

Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interact with one another.

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Springer

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1137009756

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A Philosophy of Myth

By: Chiara Bottici

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A Philosophy of Myth

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0511290691

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9780511290695

Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

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Myth, Memory, and Identity

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Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.

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The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

By: Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand

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Book's by Chiara Bottici

Imaginal Politics

Imaginal Politics

A Feminist Mythology

A Feminist Mythology

A Philosophy of Political Myth

A Philosophy of Political Myth

Anarchafeminism

Anarchafeminism

Imaginal Politics

Imaginal Politics

Imagining Europe

Imagining Europe

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

Anarchafeminism

Anarchafeminism

Media Power and The Transformation of War

Media Power and The Transformation of War

A Philosophy of Myth

A Philosophy of Myth

Imagining Europe

Imagining Europe

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

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