Bernd Huppauf is Professor Emeritus of New York University and former Director of Deutsches Haus. Christoph Wulf is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology at the Free University Berlin.

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• List of FiguresAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the ImaginationBernd Huppauf and Christoph WulfPart I: Imagination, Fantasy and CreativityIntroduction to Part I2 Imagination Gert Mattenklott3 Aesthetic Immanence Georges Didi-Huberman4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural InnovationDieter Mersch5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not ThereLudger SchwartePart II: A Look at Pictures – Pictures Look BackIntroduction to Part II6 What is: Seeing an Image?Marie José Mondzain7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the GazeHans Belting8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern ChinaMathias Obert9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare StroudPart III: Body Images and Body ImaginationsIntroduction to Part III10 The Neapolitan GestureGunter Gebauer11 Images of Social Life Christoph Wulf12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in MotionErika Fischer-Lichte13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary K. Ludwig Pfeiffer14 Ferocious ImagesPeter SloterdijkPart IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of ImagesIntroduction to Part IV15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image Gottfried Boehm16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images Bernd Huppauf17 A Small History (of) Still PassingRebecca Schneider18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary TextsGabriele Brandstetter19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow FiguresMartin PuchnerPart V: Constructions of the VisualIntroduction to Part V20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of TerrorW.J.T. Mitchell21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film Gertrud Koch22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysisRoland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific ObjectivityBritta SchinzelNotes on ContributorsIndex

Bernd Huppauf is Professor Emeritus of New York University and former Director of Deutsches Haus. Christoph Wulf is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology at the Free University Berlin.

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• List of FiguresAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the ImaginationBernd Huppauf and Christoph WulfPart I: Imagination, Fantasy and CreativityIntroduction to Part I2 Imagination Gert Mattenklott3 Aesthetic Immanence Georges Didi-Huberman4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural InnovationDieter Mersch5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not ThereLudger SchwartePart II: A Look at Pictures – Pictures Look BackIntroduction to Part II6 What is: Seeing an Image?Marie José Mondzain7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the GazeHans Belting8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern ChinaMathias Obert9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare StroudPart III: Body Images and Body ImaginationsIntroduction to Part III10 The Neapolitan GestureGunter Gebauer11 Images of Social Life Christoph Wulf12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in MotionErika Fischer-Lichte13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary K. Ludwig Pfeiffer14 Ferocious ImagesPeter SloterdijkPart IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of ImagesIntroduction to Part IV15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image Gottfried Boehm16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images Bernd Huppauf17 A Small History (of) Still PassingRebecca Schneider18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary TextsGabriele Brandstetter19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow FiguresMartin PuchnerPart V: Constructions of the VisualIntroduction to Part V20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of TerrorW.J.T. Mitchell21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film Gertrud Koch22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysisRoland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific ObjectivityBritta SchinzelNotes on ContributorsIndex