L'Imagination symbolique
L'Imagination symbolique (literally The Symbolic Imagination) is a philosophical anthropology book from French anthropologist Gilbert Durand. 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."[1]
Some passages from the essay are revisited version of Dudans's 1954 publication in SUP.: Initiation philosophique.[2] 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 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
See also
- Collective unconscious
- Ernst Cassirer (1944) An essay on man
- Imaginary (sociology)
Notes and references
- ↑ Grataloup, Anne-Lise Brugger (1992) Au commencement était l'image p.31
- ↑ SUP.: Initiation philosophique (1954)
External links
- L'Imagination symbolique snippet view at Google books
- L'imagination symbolique info page at PUF (Presses Universitaires de France)