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Imagination
Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
ISBN/EAN: 9781433105296
Umbreit-Nr.: 6093594
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 414 S.
Format in cm: 2.3 x 22.5 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 28.05.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
- Zusatztext
- 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.