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

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

Murphy, Peter
Marginson, Simon
Peters, Michael Adrian

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PhilosophyGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1433105284
ISBN13: 9781433105289
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jun 30 2010
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
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.

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