Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory <<UUNN>> Value Inquiry Book Series Founding Editor Robert Ginsberg Executive Editor Leonidas Donskis† Managing Editor J.D. Mininger volume 351 Philosophy and Religion Editor Rod Nicholls (Cape Breton University) Founding Editor Ken Bryson (Cape Breton University) Editorial Board Deane-Peter Baker, University of New South Wales (unsw) – Ken Bryson, Cape Breton University – G. Elijah Dann, Simon Fraser University – Russ Dumke, University of the Incarnate Word – Carl Kalwaitis, Marian University – Ruby Ramji, Cape Breton University – Gregory MacLeod, Cape Breton University – Harriet E. 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Title: Imagination and art : explorations in contemporary theory / edited by Keith Moser and Ananta Ch. Sukla. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2020] | Series: Value inquiry book, 0929-8436 ; volume 351 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020025227 | ISBN 9789004435162 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004436350 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Imagination. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Classification: LCC BF408 .I4545 2020 | DDC 701/.15--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025227 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0929-8436 ISBN 978-90-04-43516-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-43635-0 (e-book) Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 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Sukla For bequeathing the invaluable gift of imagining beyond porous disciplinary boundaries to current and future scholars who humbly follow in your footsteps ∵ <UN> <UN> Contents Acknowledgments xiii List of Figures xiv Notes on Contributors xvii Introduction 1 Keith Moser Part 1 Historical Imagination and Judgement 1 Imagination and Art in Classical Greece and Rome 35 David Konstan 2 Poetic Imagination and Cultural Memory in Greek History and Mythology 50 Claude Calame 3 History, Imagination and the Narrative of Loss: Philosophical Questions about the Task of Historical Judgment 67 Allen Speight Part 2 Gendered Imagination 4 Imagining the Captive Amazon in Myth, Art, and History 83 Adrienne Mayor 5 Gender and Imagination: A Feminist Analysis of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men 111 Reshmi Mukherjee Part 3 Imagination and Ethics 6 Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance: A Genesis of the Post-Freudian World 139 Carol Steinberg Gould Keith Moser and Ananta Ch. Sukla - 978-90-04-43635-0 <UN> viii Contents 7 Craving Sameness, Accepting Difference: Imaginative Possibilities for Solidarity and Social Justice 155 Chandra Kavanagh 8 The Importance of Imagination/Phantasia for the Moral Psychology of Virtue Ethics 174 David Collins 9 The Infanticidal Logic of Mimesis as Horizon of the Imaginable 206 A. Samuel Kimball 10 The Relationship between Imagination and Christian Prayer 227 Michel Dion Part 4 Phenomenological and Epistemological Perspectives 11 The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively 255 Charles Altieri 12 Conceiving and Imagining: Examples and Lessons 281 Jody Azzouni 13 The Dance of Perception: The Rôle of the Imagination in Simone Weil’s Early Epistemology 304 Warren Heiti 14 One Imagination or Many? Or None? 332 Rob van Gerwen 15 Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination 346 Roderick Nicholls Part 5 Postmodern Perspectives 16 Simulacral Imagination and the Nexus of Power in a Post-Marxist Universe 381 Keith Moser <UN> Contents ix 17 Jean-François Lyotard, the Radical Imagination, and the Aesthetic of the Differend 412 Victor E. Taylor 18 The Possibility of a Productive Imagination in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari 425 Erik Bormanis Part 6 Imagination in Scientific Modeling and Biosemiotics 19 Of Predators and Prey: Imagination in Scientific Modeling 451 Fiora Salis 20 Geometry and the Imagination 475 Justin Humphreys 21 Art and Imagination: The Evolution of Meanings 503 Wendy Wheeler Part 7 Aesthetic Perspectives 22 Image, Image-Making, and Imagination 535 Dominic Gregory 23 Depiction, Imagination, and Photography 559 Jiri Benovksy 24 Imagination and Identification in Photography and Film 582 David Fenner 25 Imagination in Musical Composition, Performance, and Listening: John Cage’s Blurring of Boundaries in Music and Life in 4′33″ 594 Deborah Fillerup Weagel 26 Kinesthetic Imagining and Dance Appreciation 621 Renee M. Conroy <UN> x Contents 27 Imagination in Games: Formulation, Re-actualization and Gaining a World 646 Ton Kruse 28 “‘I AM not mad, most noble Festus.’ No. But I Have Been”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Complex, Imaginative Worlds of Sarban’s The Sound of his Horn 669 Riyukta Raghunath Part 8 Non-Western Perspectives 29 The Deep Frivolity of Life: An Indian Aesthetic Phenomenology of Fun 695 Arindam Chakrabarti 30 The Symbolic Force of Rocks in the Chinese Imagination 708 Yanping Gao 31 Magic from the Repressed: Imagination and Memories in Contemporary Japanese Literary Narratives 721 Amy Lee 32 The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾan into Ibn al-ʿArabi 735 Ali Hussain Part 9 Artists Reflect on Imagination: An Imaginative Epilogue 33 Free Thinking about Imagination: How Is It to Imagine What Imagination Is? 761 Marion Renauld 34 The Nativity of Images 769 Ton Kruse <UN>