"A critical appraisal of Chiara Bottici's influential work on imaginal politics, this collection uses this rich theoretical framework for incisive analysis, within critical theory and political philosophy, psychoanalysis and sociology"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editorial Introduction
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 1: The Imaginal of Moral Freedom: On Chiara Bottici and Drucilla Cornell1
  • The Slave Ship and the Freedom We Do Not, and Cannot, See
  • Imaginal Politics and the Radical Imaginary
  • The PoIeses of Freedom or Freedom as a Work of Art (Freiheit als Kuntswerk)
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 2: Rethinking the Imaginal
  • Can Genealogy Become Critique?
  • A Faculty of Imagination or a Context of Interpretation?
  • From the Self to the Social Imaginary
  • The Imaginal: A New Perspective
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 3: Revisiting Imaginal Politics: From Totalitarianism to Post-truth Democracies
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 4: The Ontography of Images: On the Legal Art of the Imaginal
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 5: Bottici to the Letter
  • Lacan and Imaginal Politics
  • The Letter as Imaginal
  • Leviathan
  • Sick
  • References
• Chapter 6: Traversing Lacan’s Imaginary with Bottici’s Imaginal
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 7: Islamic Politics of Imagination: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood
  • The Imaginal, Modernity, and Multiple Modernities
  • The Search for Order under Colonialism
  • Islamic Reform and Modern Islamic Imaginaries
  • Hasan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood as a Case of Islamic Politics of Imagination
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • REFERENCES
• Chapter 8: Civilizations in History and Myth: Considerations on the Imaginary and the Imaginal
  • Introduction
  • Myth, the Imaginal and Intercivilizational Engagement
  • Globalization and Multiple Constellations
  • Globalization and Plurality
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 9: Debating Imaginal Politics: A Response
  • Notes
  • References
• Acknowledgements
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors