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Imagination is a complex and ambiguous culture-making power that is a rather marginal concept in contemporary political theory. This book addresses how imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in liberal-democratic politics, and argues for a benign public employment of images and narratives in a global world of diverse cultures.

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In 1968, at the height of the student rebellions, there was a motto: L'imagination au pouvoir! It was a startling but also misleading motto because what was needed was not more power (pouvoir) but a move beyond power politics. Today, in our reigning culture of violence when media everywhere are saturated with images of horror, death, and destruction, it is surely time to enlist the more salutary and liberating resources of imagination. In her book, Czobor-Lupp enlists a whole tradition of salutary imagination: from Herder, Kant, and Schiller to Nietzsche, Arendt, and Heidegger. May this imagination free us from oppressive domination.--Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

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Mihaela Czobor-Lupp is assistant professor of political science at Carleton College.

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