Imagination and Social Perspectives

Michela Summa is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg. Research interests include: the phenomenology of sensible experience, the phenomenology and the psychopathology of self- and other-experience, the phenomenology of memory and imagination, aesthetic and ontology of fiction.Thomas Fuchs is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, Germany. Areas of expertise: phenomenological philosophy, psychology and psychopathology, with a focus on embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and intersubjectivity. Clinical work focus: diagnosis, psychopathological assessment and treatment of adults with severe psychiatric disorders.Luca Vanzago is a professor of Theoretical Philosophy and of Theory of Knowledge at the University of Pavia, Italy. Areas of expertise: phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and ontology, with focus on temporality, bodily subjectivity, the experience of pain, and the "hard problem" of consciousness.

• 1. Imagination and Social Perspectives. Approaches from Phenomenology and PsychopathologyMichela Summa, Thomas Fuchs, and Luca VanzagoSection I: Imagination and the As-If: Experiencing Multiple Realities 2. Imagining Oneself Andrea Altobrando3. Experiencing Reality and Fiction: Discontinuity and PermeabilityMichela Summa4. As-if I Were You: Imagining the Other in Aesthetic Experience from Kant to HusserlSerena FelojSection II: Imagination and Intersubjectivity in Psychopathology 5. The "As-if" Function and Its Loss in Schizophrenia Thomas Fuchs6. Intersubjective Expression in Autism and SchizophreniaTill Grohmann7. The Phenomenology of Intersubjective Reality in SchizophreniaZeno Van DuppenSection III: Imagination and the Experience of Others8. Spinoza on the Role of Feelings, Imagination and Knowledge in Sex, Love, and Social LifeRudolf Bernet9. Sartre and the Role of Imagination in Mutual UnderstandingJens Bonnermann10. Intersubjectivity and Imagination. On Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of Intercorporeality as Foundation of CommunityLuca Vanzago11. The Minded Other and the Work of the ImaginationAnita Avramides12. Empathy without SimulationMatthew RatcliffeSection IV: The Sociality of Imagination13. Collective Imagination: A Normative Account Thomas Szanto14. Shared imagining: Beyond extension, distribution, and commitmentJulia Jansen15. Beyond the Dichotomy of "Social Direct Perception" and "Simulation Theory". Scheler’s Account of Social Cognition RevisitedEmanuele CaminadaSection V. Aesthetic, Ethical, and Socio-Political Grounds of Perspective-Taking16. We-Perspective on Aesthetic Grounds: Gemeinsinn and Übereinstimmung in Kant and WittgensteinSilvana Borutti17. Social Perspectivity. From the Anonymous Social Order to Individual and Social AwarenessKarl Mertens18. The Ethico-Political Turn of Phenomenology. Reflections on Otherness in Husserl and LevinasMatthias Flatscher and Sergej Seitz

"This collection is welcome indeed since it draws into sharp relief the important but often overlooked connections among imagination, intersubjectivity, and perspective-taking of all kinds. While those schooled in the phenomenological tradition are well aware that these interlocking themes were of central concern to Husserl, Stein, Sartre and company, it has, with some exceptions, taken a little more time for analytical philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists to realize just how crucial perspective-taking is to understanding the structures and functions of consciousness . . . The book is highly recommended." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"An outstanding and innovative book, which absolutely needs to be read and studied by researchers and students." — Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen, France"This book covers a wide range of intriguing and original contributions to the role of imagination in perspective-taking, and the sociality of imagination." — Anika Fiebich, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany