Historical-Philosophical Studies of the Imaginary

Possibilities of the Imaginary at Work

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The imaginary is both a journey and the nave through which the journey is accomplished. It would be a “cruise” if the word were not so strongly enveloped in the univocity of pleasure. The exploration of our own or collective imaginations is often the space of disillusion and discontinuities. In other words, the imaginary is a trap of sorts and the theoretical exercises to understand its mechanism require the use of tools and methodologies that are at the crossroads of several disciplines. The various contributions in this volume borrow the double potential of what it can mean to work from and with the imaginary.

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David Hamidović, Ph.D. (2003), Université de Paris – Sorbonne (Paris 4), is Full Professor with chair at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on Ancient Judaism, including Les manuscrits de la mer Morte (Presses Universitaires de France, 2023) and Dans l’antichambre. Pour un dialogue entre la pensée juive et la connaissance renouvelée du judaïsme ancient (Hermann, 2022).

Pierre-Adrien Marciset, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2020), Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, is Postdoctorant in Philosophy of consciousness and phenomenology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has published Paradigmes pour une philosophie des imaginaires (Hermann, 2023), two novels, and many articles about the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg.
List of Figures

 Introduction: Imaginary at Work
 David Hamidović and Pierre-Adrien Marciset

1 Prefiguration and the Historical Imagination in the Digital Age: Phenomenological Perspectives on Kant, Blumenberg, Habermas and Agamben
 Angus Nicholls

2 Process and Mnemosyne, or What Is It Like to Remember?
 Pierre-Adrien Marciset

3 The Fear of the Original
 Marc de Launay

4 Albertus Magnus’ Elephant: the Factory of the Imagination
 Véronique Decaix

5 Containing an Overactive Imagination: Apollo and Nietzsche’s Pataphysics of Daydreaming
 Arnaud Sorosina

6 From Imagination to Imaginary: Anatomy of Apocalypticism
 David Hamidović

7 Hermeneutics of the Devil’s Imaginaries in Paradigmatic Eras, with Hans Blumenberg
 Pierre-Adrien Marciset

8 Beyond the Edge of Imaginary: Unimaginable at Work – the Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Fiction, with H. Blumenberg and R. Barbaras
 Camille Byron

9 How Does Precisely the Imaginary Work? a Working Hypothesis on Four Steps
 Fausto Fraisopi

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This book is of interest to scholars, doctoral candidates and researchers involved in philosophy, intellectual history, and cultural theory.
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