Technics and Enaction

A Philosophy of Imagination

Dr Émilien Dereclenne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-50759-3 (ISBN)

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Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory.

Émilien Dereclenne argues that contemporary conceptions of imagination and creativity in the field of cognitive science, are guilty of a kind of dualism between mind and technics. Combining enacted, embodied, ecological, extended, embedded (5e) cognitive theories with material anthropology and the French philosophy of technics and imagination, Dereclenne challenges this approach. Instead, he highlights the role of technical and socio-material engagement in imaginative and creative processes. In doing so, he brings enactive philosophers like Lambros Malafouris, Shaun Gallagher and Ezequiel Di Paolo into dialogue with the philosophy of André Leroi Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon and Bernard Stiegler in order to showcase how French philosophers of technics can help 5E cognitive sciences further explore their theories of imagination.

Émilien Dereclenne is Doctor of Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Science. He undertook his PhD at University of Technology of Compiègne, France, and is also a professional baroque and jazz cellist.

Introduction: Enacting Imagination

Part I
1. Technics: A Blind Spot
2. Avoiding Representationalism and Internalism

Part II
3. Articulating Life, Imagination and Technics
4. Materializing Imagination
5. Anchoring Imagination

Part III
6. Situating Imagination
7. Imagination Reconsidered
Conclusion: Re-explaining Imagination

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-50759-8 / 1350507598
ISBN-13	978-1-350-50759-3 / 9781350507593
Zustand	Neuware