Cambridge UP, Fachbücher, Imagined Democracies (Englisch, Yaron Ezrahi, 2015)

Part I. Necessary Fictions of the Political and the Reality of Political Fictions: 1. The contest over the rightful domain of the imagination 2. The revival and contemporary legacy of Giambatista Vico (1668¿1744) as a modern theorist of the political imagination 3. Modes of imagining: elements of a theory of the political imagination 4. Naturalization and historicization as strategies of the political imagination Part II. Modern Common Sense and the Rise of Modern Political Imaginaries: 5. The historicity of common sense and the role of scientism in the modern political imagination 6. Empiricism, induction, and visibility: the moral epistemology of democratic political power 7. The performing arts and the performance of politics: the dialectics between the transparent and self-concealing imagination Part III. Modern Imaginaries of Democratic Political Agencies and Causality: 8. Voluntary action, the fear of theatricality, and the materialization of the political 9. Animated fictions: self (as) fulfilling prophecy and the performative imaginaries of democratic political agencies 10. Individuals between liberal and illiberal corporations 11. The impact of culture, the cultivation of the individual interior in literature, painting, and music Part IV. The Postmodern Turn and the Return of Political Theatricality: 12. Mass media and the refictionalization of agency and reality 13. The ethics and pragmatics of the democratic political imagination: on choosing the imaginaries we want to live by.