Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

<p>In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.</p> <p>List of Figures</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the Imagination</p><p>Bernd Huppauf and Christoph Wulf</p><p>Part I: Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity</p><p>Introduction to Part I</p><p>2 Imagination </p><p>Gert Mattenklott</p><p>3 Aesthetic Immanence </p><p>Georges Didi-Huberman</p><p>4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural Innovation</p><p>Dieter Mersch</p><p>5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not There</p><p>Ludger Schwarte</p><p>Part II: A Look at Pictures – Pictures Look Back</p><p>Introduction to Part II</p><p>6 What is: Seeing an Image?</p><p>Marie José Mondzain</p><p>7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the Gaze</p><p>Hans Belting</p><p>8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern China</p><p>Mathias Obert</p><p>9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare Stroud</p><p>Part III: Body Images and Body Imaginations</p><p>Introduction to Part III</p><p>10 The Neapolitan Gesture</p><p>Gunter Gebauer</p><p>11 Images of Social Life </p><p>Christoph Wulf</p><p>12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in Motion</p><p>Erika Fischer-Lichte</p><p>13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary </p><p>K. Ludwig Pfeiffer</p><p>14 Ferocious Images</p><p>Peter Sloterdijk</p><p>Part IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images</p><p>Introduction to Part IV</p><p>15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image </p><p>Gottfried Boehm</p><p>16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images </p><p>Bernd Huppauf</p><p>17 A Small History (of) Still Passing</p><p>Rebecca Schneider</p><p>18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary Texts</p><p>Gabriele Brandstetter</p><p>19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow Figures</p><p>Martin Puchner</p><p>Part V: Constructions of the Visual</p><p>Introduction to Part V</p><p>20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of Terror</p><p>W.J.T. Mitchell</p><p>21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film </p><p>Gertrud Koch</p><p>22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis</p><p>Roland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks</p><p>23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific Objectivity</p><p>Britta Schinzel</p><p>Notes on Contributors</p><p>Index</p>