The Social Routes of the Imaginary
Pier Luca Marzo, "The Social Routes of the Imaginary "
English | ISBN: 1538175118 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 573 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1538175118 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 573 KB + 2 MB
The question of imaginary starts where its opposition to reality ends. Once this opposition is dismissed, it becomes possible thinking of imaginary as a mean of construction and transformation of the social reality. A series of essays – regarding the taking form of socio-anthropological environments; the collective dynamics of social integration; the mass media metamorphosis; the politics legitimation processes; the symbolic dimension of economics and that of the material culture; the representation of otherness – trace an analytical perspective in which imaginary represents an essential tool for a deep understanding of social phenomena.
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