Imposed Rationality and Besieged Imagination Practical Life and Social Pathologies /

• Main Author: Pereira, Gustavo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, 9
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political theory.; Critical theory.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Political philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Critical Theory.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Political Philosophy.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

Social pathologies are social processes that hinder how individuals exercise their autonomy and freedom. In this book, Gustavo Pereira offers an account of such phenomena by defining them as a cognitive failure that affects the practical imagination, thus negatively interfering with our practical li...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Practical life: imagination, autonomy and reflection
• Chapter 2. Practical imagination
• Chapter 3. Autonomy
• Chapter 4. Reflection
• Chapter 5. Autonomy as a normative criterion: imagination and reflection as its indicators
• Chapter 6. Rationality bursting its banks
• Chapter 7. Social Pathologies: distinctive features
• Chapter 8. Breaking the siege.