''L'Imagination symbolique'' (literally ''The Symbolic Imagination'') is a
philosophical anthropology
Philosophical anthropology, sometimes called anthropological philosophy, is a discipline dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person.
History
Ancient Christian writers: Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo wa ...
book from French anthropologist
Gilbert Durand
Gilbert Durand (1 May 1921 – 7 December 2012) was a French academic known for his work on the imaginary, symbolic anthropology and mythology.
According to Durand, Imagination and Reason can be complementary. He defended the status of the imag ...
. The first edition was issued in 1964. Durand reprises his influential concept of the ''anthropological trajectory'', and he proposed a "tactical pedagody of the imaginary."
Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in ''SUP.: Initiation philosophique''.
SUP.: Initiation philosophique
(1954) Among the differences, the change in terminology from "cultures apolliniennes" to "régime diurne," and from "cultures dionysiennes" to "régime nocturne"; the earlier terminology followed that of Ruth Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College, and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Re ...
and Nietzsche, while the new terminology follows what Durand formulated in 1960 with ''The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary''.
Editions and translations
*1970 ''象徴の想像力 / Shōchō no sōzōryoku'', translated by Akira Unami
*1971 ''La imaginación simbólica'', published by Amorrortu Editores
*1999 ''L'immaginazione simbolica'', translated by Anna Chiara Peduzzi
*1988 ''A imaginação simbólica''
*1998 ''Sembolik imgelem'', Translated by Ayşe MERAL
See also
*Collective unconscious
Collective unconscious (german: kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts. It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populat ...
*Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
Aft ...
(1944) ''An essay on man''
*Imaginary (sociology)
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the ...
Notes and references
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