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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x25 mm, kaal: 227 g
  • Sari: Univocal
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517914450
  • ISBN-13: 9781517914455
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x25 mm, kaal: 227 g
  • Sari: Univocal
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517914450
  • ISBN-13: 9781517914455
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A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images

Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon’s fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources—from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—Imagination and Invention provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon’s earlier, highly influential work.

Simondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism’s relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.

Preface: A Theory of the Image in Light of the Notion of Invention, a Theory of Invention in Light of the Notion of the Image ix
Jean-Yves Chateau
IMAGINATION AND INVENTION
Preamble 3(4)
Introduction 7(1)
A The Image as Intermediary Reality between Object and Subject, Concrete and Abstract, Past and Future
7(11)
1 Object and Subject
7(2)
2 Concrete and Abstract
9(6)
3 Past and Future
15(3)
B The Hypothesis of the Genetic Dynamism of the Image: Phases and Levels
18(6)
C The Fields of Application of the Notion of Genetic Cycle of the Image; the Image Exterior to the Individual
24(5)
1 Synchronization with the Circadian Rhythm
24(1)
2 Life as Cycle of the Genesis of Images
25(1)
3 Imagination and the Seasons
26(1)
4 The Cycle of Images and the Becoming of Civilizations
26(3)
Part I The Motor Content of Images: The Image Prior to the Experience of the Object
29(34)
A Biological Givens: How Motricity Precedes Sensoriality
29(12)
1 The Phylogenetic Aspect: The Development of Motricity Precedes that of Sensoriality; Virtualization
29(2)
2 The Action System as Ontogenetic Basis of Motor Images
31(1)
3 Hereditary Coordinations of Actions in Motor Images
32(3)
4 Spontaneity of Motor Anticipations during Ontogenesis
35(3)
5 Motor Images and Imitation: Phenomena of Sympathetic Induction
38(1)
6 Inherence of Motor Images in the Body Schema
39(2)
B Images in States of Expectation and Anticipation
41(15)
1 Phobias and Compulsive Exaggerations: The Amplifying Character of States of Expectation
42(3)
2 Particular Aspects of Images in a State of Fear; Doubling
45(2)
3 The Image in Positive States of Expectation
47(2)
4 Anticipation Images in Mixed States: The Marvelous as Category of Mixed Anticipation
49(7)
C Intuition as Pure a priori Image, Principle of Reflective Knowledge
56(7)
1 The Projection Schema in Platonism; the Role of Intuition
56(2)
2 Procession and Conversion
58(1)
3 The Intuition of the Moving and the Knowledge of Creative Evolution
59(4)
Part II The Cognitive Content of Images: Image and Perception
63(30)
A Biological Givens of Perceptual Functions
63(11)
1 Primary Biological Categories and Secondary Psychical Categories: The Role of the Milieu Organized as Territory
63(1)
2 The Image as Immediate Anticipation in the Identification of the Object: Image and Concept
64(3)
3 The Particular Characters of Images in Instinctual Perceptions Depending on Species: Social Aspects
67(4)
4 The Role of the Intra-perceptual Image in Choice; Victimology and Depth Psychology
71(3)
B The Role of the Intra-perceptual Image in Information Gathering
74(7)
1 The Role of the Intra-perceptual Image in Object Identification: Perceptual Constancy and Adaptation
74(3)
2 The Image in Differential Perception
77(3)
3 The Role of the Image in Adaptation to Change: Perception of Derivation
80(1)
C The Intra-perceptual Image in the Perception of Shapes: Geometrical Images
81(12)
1 Subjective Contour and Associated Image
81(2)
2 Reversibilities
83(1)
3 The Image as Singularity or Privileged System of Perceptual Compatibility among Orders of Magnitude
84(9)
a Singularities Are More Pregnant Than Regularities
85(2)
b Geometrical Shapes May Become Pregnant through Their Mutual Relationships
87(1)
c The Intra-perceptual Image Is the Style Common to Texture and Configuration
87(6)
Part III The Affective-Emotional Content of Images: The a posteriori Image, or Symbol
93(46)
A The Level of Elementary Conditionings: Pragung and Critical Periods
93(8)
1 Imprinting (Pragung, Pregnation)
93(2)
2 The Human Aspects of Elementary Conditionings
95(1)
3 Images of the Object
96(5)
B The Level of Psychic Processes: The Mental Image, the Symbol
101(24)
1 The Consecutive Image
101(2)
2 Immediate Images and Eidetic Images
103(7)
3 Memory-Images; Notion of a Reproductive Imagination; "Imaginative Types"; Generic Images
110(15)
C The Imaginary as Organized World; Effigies and Symbol-Objects
125(14)
1 The Notion of the Imago; In What Way the Imago Is a Symbol
126(5)
2 The Symbol-Object
131(8)
Part IV Invention
139(46)
A Elementary Invention; The Role of Free Activity in the Discovery of Mediations
139(13)
1 The Different Species of Compatibility; Detour, an Elementary Behavior
139(7)
2 Instrumental Mediation
146(5)
3 The Properties Common to Detour and Instrumental Mediation
151(1)
B Invention concerning Signs and Symbols
152(11)
1 Objective Metrological Formalization: From Technics to Science
152(4)
2 Subjective Formalizations (Normative and Artistic)
156(4)
3 Processes of Amplification in Formalization
160(3)
C Invention as the Production of a Created Object or of a Work
163(22)
1 The Creation of Technical Objects
164(14)
2 Other Categories of Created Objects, in Particular, the Aesthetic Object
178(7)
Conclusion
185(8)
Recapitulation
185(1)
Implications of the Present Proposal
186(7)
Notes 193(8)
Bibliography 201
Gilbert Simondon (19241989) was a French philosopher of technology whose work continues to attract new interest within a variety of academic fields. His books in English translation include Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volumes 1 and 2, and On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (all from Minnesota).

Christophe Wall-Romana is professor and Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota.

Joe Hughes is senior lecturer in English and Theater Studies at the University of Melbourne.