Concept

Imaginary (sociology)

Overview

set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Imaginary (sociology)

• Cornelius Castoriadis

Related ideas

• Philosophy
• Internet
• John Searle
• Melanie Klein
• Jacques Lacan
• Jürgen Habermas
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Sociology
• School of thought
• Ontology
• Psychoanalysis
• Henry Corbin
• Institution
• Charles Taylor (philosopher)
• Social contract
• Cornelius Castoriadis
• Value (ethics)
• Praxis (process)
• Anthropology
• Gilbert Durand
• Gilles Lipovetsky

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophical anthropology.

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