Bilder des Menschen : Imaginäre und performative Grundlagen der Kultur
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Wulf Christoph ;
- Editeurs : Bielefeld transcript Verlag ; Bielefeld transcript Verlag ;
- Date d'édition : 2014
- Sujets : Das Imaginäre, Kultur, Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft, Performativität (Kulturwissenschaften)
- Langue(s) : Allemand
- Pays de publication : Allemagne, États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Edition Kulturwissenschaft, 61,
Notes
Christoph Wulf (Dr. phil.) ist Professor für Anthropologie und Erziehung und Mitglied des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Historische Anthropologie an der Freien Universität Berlin ; Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ACM, viewed April 03 2015) ; L'accès complet à la ressource est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition ; Reproduction électronique. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2014. Mode d'accès : Internet. System requirements: Web browser. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Résumé
What is the role of images, imagination, and the imaginary for our understanding of the world, of other humans, and of human subjectivity? What meaning do they have for everyday life, literature, and the arts? Christoph Wulf shows: Processes of imagination and of the imaginary contribute to the shaping of humans, their societies, and their cultures. They are closely connected to practices of the body and to its performativity. Taking into account games, rituals, and gestures, as well as families and domestic bliss, it becomes clear: social and cultural practices are learned, stored, and changed through mimetic processes, i.e. through creative imitation - and they become a part of the individual and collective imagination as images