Gillian Robinson lectures in Politics at Deakin UniversityJohn Rundell is Ashworth Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.

• Preface; Introduction, John Rundell; Part I Decentring society, recentring the subject; Chapter 1 A society of culture: the constitution of modernity, Gyorgy Markus; Chapter 2 The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn, Martin Jay; Chapter 3 The elementary ethics of everyday life, Agnes Heller; Chapter 4 European rationality, Niklas Luhmann; Part II Creating imagination; Chapter 5 Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination, John Rundell; Chapter 6 Imagination in discourse and in action, Paul Ricoeur; Chapter 7 Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis; Chapter 8 Reason, imagination, interpretation, Johann P. Arnason; epilogue Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity, David Roberts;

Gillian Robinson lectures in Politics at Deakin UniversityJohn Rundell is Ashworth Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.

• Preface; Introduction, John Rundell; Part I Decentring society, recentring the subject; Chapter 1 A society of culture: the constitution of modernity, Gyorgy Markus; Chapter 2 The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn, Martin Jay; Chapter 3 The elementary ethics of everyday life, Agnes Heller; Chapter 4 European rationality, Niklas Luhmann; Part II Creating imagination; Chapter 5 Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination, John Rundell; Chapter 6 Imagination in discourse and in action, Paul Ricoeur; Chapter 7 Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis; Chapter 8 Reason, imagination, interpretation, Johann P. Arnason; epilogue Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity, David Roberts;

Gillian Robinson lectures in Politics at Deakin UniversityJohn Rundell is Ashworth Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.

• Preface; Introduction, John Rundell; Part I Decentring society, recentring the subject; Chapter 1 A society of culture: the constitution of modernity, Gyorgy Markus; Chapter 2 The Apocalyptic imagination and the inability to mourn, Martin Jay; Chapter 3 The elementary ethics of everyday life, Agnes Heller; Chapter 4 European rationality, Niklas Luhmann; Part II Creating imagination; Chapter 5 Creativity and judgement: Kant on reason and imagination, John Rundell; Chapter 6 Imagination in discourse and in action, Paul Ricoeur; Chapter 7 Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary, Cornelius Castoriadis; Chapter 8 Reason, imagination, interpretation, Johann P. Arnason; epilogue Sublime theories: reason and imagination in modernity, David Roberts;