Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

Bernd Huppauf is Professor Emeritus of New York University and former Director of Deutsches Haus. Christoph Wulf is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology at the Free University Berlin.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the ImaginationBernd Huppauf and Christoph WulfPart I: Imagination, Fantasy and CreativityIntroduction to Part I2 Imagination Gert Mattenklott3 Aesthetic Immanence Georges Didi-Huberman4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural InnovationDieter Mersch5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not ThereLudger SchwartePart II: A Look at Pictures – Pictures Look BackIntroduction to Part II6 What is: Seeing an Image?Marie José Mondzain7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the GazeHans Belting8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern ChinaMathias Obert9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare StroudPart III: Body Images and Body ImaginationsIntroduction to Part III10 The Neapolitan GestureGunter Gebauer11 Images of Social Life Christoph Wulf12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in MotionErika Fischer-Lichte13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary K. Ludwig Pfeiffer14 Ferocious ImagesPeter SloterdijkPart IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of ImagesIntroduction to Part IV15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image Gottfried Boehm16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images Bernd Huppauf17 A Small History (of) Still PassingRebecca Schneider18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary TextsGabriele Brandstetter19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow FiguresMartin PuchnerPart V: Constructions of the VisualIntroduction to Part V20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of TerrorW.J.T. Mitchell21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film Gertrud Koch22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysisRoland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific ObjectivityBritta SchinzelNotes on ContributorsIndex