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Theorists have long been divided over the role of the imagination in politics. Does the imagination foster creative and sympathetic citizens? Or does it lead to the aestheticization of politics? In Imagination in Politics, Czobor-Lupp offers the careful and insightful treatment of imagination contemporary theorists have been looking for. Through an engagement with a wide range of thinkers from Herder and Schiller to Habermas, she examines when imagination can benefit and when it can harm political order. Her account-that imagination helps when it liberates and harms when it dominates-is elegant and compelling. -- Jeffrey Church, University of Houston How can we make a public sphere that moves beyond today's debilitating politics of the spectacle and towards empowering citizens to engage creatively across difference about collective life? In this essential work, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp argues that only through the transformation of our creative imagination can people create the kind of public sphere that vindicates our dialogical and ethical power. Against a long line of commentators who either uncritically valorize or blindly fear the creative power of aesthetic politics, Czobor-Lupp gives us a clear-eyed account of both the attractions and the dangers of imagination for collective life. Czobor-Lupp brings the aesthetic insights of three centuries of German political philosophy to bear on the ethically attractive but aesthetically inadequate arguments of discourse ethics and Arendtian action theory: the result is a delightful and insightful read, but also a critical contribution to contemporary political thought. -- Elisabeth Ellis, University of Otago 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, Czober-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

Theorists have long been divided over the role of the imagination in politics. Does the imagination foster creative and sympathetic citizens? Or does it lead to the aestheticization of politics? In Imagination in Politics, Czobor-Lupp offers the careful and insightful treatment of imagination contemporary theorists have been looking for. Through an engagement with a wide range of thinkers from Herder and Schiller to Habermas, she examines when imagination can benefit and when it can harm political order. Her account-that imagination helps when it liberates and harms when it dominates-is elegant and compelling. -- Jeffrey Church, University of Houston

Theorists have long been divided over the role of the imagination in politics. Does the imagination foster creative and sympathetic citizens? Or does it lead to the aestheticization of politics? In Imagination in Politics, Czobor-Lupp offers the careful and insightful treatment of imagination contemporary theorists have been looking for. Through an engagement with a wide range of thinkers from Herder and Schiller to Habermas, she examines when imagination can benefit and when it can harm political order. Her account-that imagination helps when it liberates and harms when it dominates-is elegant and compelling. -- Jeffrey Church, University of Houston How can we make a public sphere that moves beyond today's debilitating politics of the spectacle and towards empowering citizens to engage creatively across difference about collective life? In this essential work, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp argues that only through the transformation of our creative imagination can people create the kind of public sphere that vindicates our dialogical and ethical power. Against a long line of commentators who either uncritically valorize or blindly fear the creative power of aesthetic politics, Czobor-Lupp gives us a clear-eyed account of both the attractions and the dangers of imagination for collective life. Czobor-Lupp brings the aesthetic insights of three centuries of German political philosophy to bear on the ethically attractive but aesthetically inadequate arguments of discourse ethics and Arendtian action theory: the result is a delightful and insightful read, but also a critical contribution to contemporary political thought. -- Elisabeth Ellis, University of Otago 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

Theorists have long been divided over the role of the imagination in politics. Does the imagination foster creative and sympathetic citizens? Or does it lead to the aestheticization of politics? In Imagination in Politics, Czobor-Lupp offers the careful and insightful treatment of imagination contemporary theorists have been looking for. Through an engagement with a wide range of thinkers from Herder and Schiller to Habermas, she examines when imagination can benefit and when it can harm political order. Her account-that imagination helps when it liberates and harms when it dominates-is elegant and compelling. -- Jeffrey Church, University of Houston How can we make a public sphere that moves beyond today's debilitating politics of the spectacle and towards empowering citizens to engage creatively across difference about collective life? In this essential work, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp argues that only through the transformation of our creative imagination can people create the kind of public sphere that vindicates our dialogical and ethical power. Against a long line of commentators who either uncritically valorize or blindly fear the creative power of aesthetic politics, Czobor-Lupp gives us a clear-eyed account of both the attractions and the dangers of imagination for collective life. Czobor-Lupp brings the aesthetic insights of three centuries of German political philosophy to bear on the ethically attractive but aesthetically inadequate arguments of discourse ethics and Arendtian action theory: the result is a delightful and insightful read, but also a critical contribution to contemporary political thought. -- Elisabeth Ellis, University of Otago 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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