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About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.


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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Fogu as discussed by the authors argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness.
Abstract: Focusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, The Historic Imaginary unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation - from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media - spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime. Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that .fascism makes history rather than writing it,. and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality.

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TL;DR: This paper argued that the Jewish-nationalist plot of Daniel, a revision of the classical Bildungsroman along nationalist lines, functions in many ways as a narrative and symbolic solution to Eliot9s emphasis on continuity and rupture.
Abstract: This essay aims at a cultural and intellectual reconstruction of the ideological function of the Jewish-nationalist thematic complex in George Eliot9s Daniel Deronda (1876). Although a break with the national past is clearly needed, as indicated by the decadent figure of Henleigh Grandcourt, Eliot is nevertheless reluctant to abandon her conservative-organic politics. The "necessary laws" of cultural development have led to the cul-de-sac of decadent paralysis; at the same time, however, too little continuity with the national past, as indicated by Daniel9s aesthetic cosmopolitanism, results in an equally disastrous paralysis of moral discrimination. This essay argues that the Jewish-nationalist plot of Daniel, a revision of the classical Bildungsroman along nationalist lines, functions in many ways as a narrative and symbolic solution to Eliot9s emphasis on continuity as well as rupture. That solution, however, given that Daniel is Jewish, remains irrecuperable for English nationalist purposes and thus necessitates the modulation of Jewishness into an idea of Judaism that could speak to the moral and nationalist concerns of England. The essay shows that for Eliot, Judaism represents a nationalistmoral ideal in contradistinction to Matthew Arnold9s ideal of a cosmopolitan culture. Further, Eliot casts Judaism as a continuation of as well as a break with English national life. Judaism, in the nationalist imaginary of Daniel Deronda, serves as the middle term that conjoins both sequence and rupture, tradition and a burst of new energy. As an added bonus, through its inflection toward Zionism, Judaism also safeguards the purity of the English national tradition from the specter of racial hybridity.

46 citations

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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: A brief history of The Origin of the World: Courbet and Lacan is given in this paper, along with a discussion of the early Hetero-orthodoxies of Lacan's family complexes.
Abstract: Abbreviations Introduction 1. A brief history of The Origin of the World: Courbet and Lacan 2. Early Hetero-orthodoxies: Lacan's family complexes 3. 'History is not the Past': Lacan's critique of Ferenczi 4. On chimpanzees and children in the looking-glass: Wallon's mirror experiments and Lacan's theory of reflective recognition 5. Topographies of conflict: the Machia in the mirror stage 6. 'Lacannibalism': the return to Freud's idea of identification 7. Augustine in contexts (Part I): the riddle of a repetition 8. Augustine in contexts (Part II): three variations on a scene from the Confessions 9. 'Grandma, what a dreadfully big mouth you have!' Lacan's parables of the maternal object Epilogue Notes Index.

46 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend symbolic convergence theory from an imaginary Gunn, arguing that it is not the same as the one presented in the present paper, and defend the convergence theory.
Abstract: (2003). Defending symbolic convergence theory from an imaginary Gunn. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 366-372.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023563
20221,296
2021145
2020180
2019178
2018199