Social Imaginaries

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<span>Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They include a new comparative approach to theorizing Castoriadis, Ricoeur, and Taylor; the rethinking of the creative imagination in relation to</span><span>common sense</span><span>; analyses of political imaginaries in neoliberal and constitutional contexts from perspectives drawing on Gauchet and Lefort; and the taking up questions of historical continuity and discontinuity in civilizational worlds. In addressing pressing questions concerning social imaginaries, the book advances the field as a whole. The book includes a Foreword by George H. Taylor.<br><br>This book is a must-read for all scholars interested in social and political imaginaries and will appeal to researchers and graduate students working across a wide variety of disciplines in the human sciences.</span>

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<span>Suzi Adams</span><span>is a Senior Lecturer in the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Flinders University), Permanent External Fellow of the East-Central Institute for Philosophy (Charles University), inaugural Senior Research Fellow at the new Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability: Modernisation, Transformation, Control" (University of Hamburg), and a co-ordinating editor of the</span><span>Social Imaginaries</span><span>journal and book series. She has published widely on the social imaginaries field. She has recently edited the English language publication of the Ricoeur-Castoriadis radio encounter from 1985, with accompanying essays (Rowman&amp; Littlefield International, 2017) and is currently writing a monograph entitled</span><span>Castoriadis and the Imaginary Element</span><span>(Rowman&amp; Littlefield International).<br><br></span><span>Jeremy C.A. Smith</span><span> is in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia. Currently Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Science, he held the positions of Deputy Head of School (2016-2018), Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (2011-2014) and Deputy Head of School (2007-2011). He has published his research in</span><span>European Journal of Social Theory</span><span>,</span><span>Critical Horizons</span><span>,</span><span>Journal of Intercultural Studies</span><span>,</span><span>Atlantic Studies</span><span> and</span><span>Political Power and Social Theory.</span><span>He is the author of</span><span>Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity</span><span> (Brill, 2006) and</span><span>Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age</span><span> (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as a co-editor of two other edited collections. He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal</span><span>Social Imaginaries</span><span> (Zeta Books) and the</span><span>Social Imaginaries</span><span> book series (Rowman&amp; Littlefield International). His current research work revolves around civilizational analysis and social imaginaries.</span>

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