General Book Search for "9781433105296"

Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

Paperback
Published : Friday 28 May 2010
ISBN : 9781433105296
Price : €35.75


You may also like ...

Product

Imagination: Three Models of Imaginatio...

Paperback
28 May 2010

€35.75

Extended stock - Dispatch 5-7 days
Product

Judge Walden: Call The Next Case

€12.04

Extended stock - Dispatch 5-7 days
Product

Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and ...

€59.03

Extended stock - Dispatch 5-7 days

Description

Explores the social and global dimension of human imagining - and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. This title examines the role of aesthetic, pictorial, digital, paradoxical and other imaginative styles of thinking.

Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks 'what advances the arts and sciences?' This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining-and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking: Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large scale. It examines the role of aesthetic, pictorial, digital, paradoxical and other imaginative styles of thinking, and the times and places in which such styles become socially prominent and a significant force in economic and cultural production. It looks at successful societies as they are approaching their peak, when new ideas are driving them forward.



Reviews