Imagination
Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
©2010
Textbook
412 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 412
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453900079
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433105289
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433105296
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0007-9
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2010 (June)
- Keywords
- imagination creativity discovery globalism university city creative thinking education nation
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 416 pp.
