Imagination And Social Perspectives: Approaches From Phenomenology And Psychopathology (routledge Research In Phenomenology)
by Thomas Fuchs /
2017 / English / PDF
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Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in
hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and
emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.
The same object can be seen from many different points of view,
an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different
individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by
our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these
phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of
perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible,
perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others
as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual
understanding can consistently be understood in terms of
perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the
different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in
social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of
imagination in such processes. It includes original works in
philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival
flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of
direct perception and imagination.
Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in
hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and
emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.
The same object can be seen from many different points of view,
an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different
individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by
our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these
phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of
perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible,
perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others
as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual
understanding can consistently be understood in terms of
perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the
different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in
social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of
imagination in such processes. It includes original works in
philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival
flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of
direct perception and imagination.
