EAN: 9781433105296

IMAGINATION - PETER MURPHY MICHAEL ADRIAN PETER...

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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