Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Bildlichkeit und Verlust von Bildlichkeit in Philosophie und Ökonomie

Abhandlungen:

• Wolfgang Christian Schneider: Auf dem Weg zum inneren Bild. Verstehen und Bildwerdung bei Cusanus und Gianfrancesco Pico mit Blicken auf Jan van Eyck und Hieronymus Bosch
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  The imaginations occupy a key position in the thinking of Cusanus, especially in De mente. He stresses the interplay of the intellect and the imagination, which, by interaction with the concrete things being perceived in a new way, is capable of evoking images. In De imaginatione, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, with recourse to the theories known in his time, outlines the central role of the imagination in the Renaissance, focusing on the creativity of the imagination. Fundamental correspondences with these interpretations can be discovered in the art of their time: firstly, in the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck with its amazing observation and rendering of reflections, which shows equivalents to the thinking of Cusanus; secondly, in the ›Garden of Earthly Delights‹ by Hieronymus Bosch. In this work, the processes of the imaginatio as formulated by Pico are visualized, especially with regard to splitting up and recomposing, what is perceived. Thus in the years around 1500 we witness the emergence of a productive conception of the imagination.
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• Kirstin Zeyer: Operative Bildlichkeit in der cartesischen Philosophie
  
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  With the progressing mechanisation in the 17th century the qualitative exploration of the cosmos that appeared takes more and more place on the sidelines of the progressing way to modernity. This transformation itself is a phenomenon that can’t be simply cut off from it’s own tradition, as shown by the philosophy of René Descartes, who appreciates the value of the senses, of the capacity to see and the light much more than would be generally assumed. His creative way to place scientific images nevertheless don’t reaches anymore a living imagery which is expressed in the ›visus intellectus‹, but now is restricted to the activity of the ›ratio‹ and limited by the omnipotent god. This article focuses on the changes itself and not only at ›profit and loss‹ of several developments.
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• Walter Ötsch: Imaginative Grundlagen bei Adam Smith. Aspekte von Bildlichkeit und ihrem Verlust in der Geschichte der Ökonomie
  
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  Based on ideas of David Hume, Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments developed the idea of a moral person. Morality in his conception is obtained in a continuous process of imagination about oneself and the others as well. Smith’s idea of man has many implications for economic theory. However, in economics it soon was forgotten. Therefore the history of economic thought beginning with Adam Smith can be understood as the constant loss of imagery and the implications of imaginations for economic activities. At the end, this article provides a short overview of some major implications of this development for economic thought.
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• Silja Graupe: »Gefangene der Bilder in unseren Köpfen«. Die Macht ökonomischer Abstraktion
  
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  Today’s standard approach to economic education assumes that it can teach students how to view the world in a fixed and unchangeable way. But where does this assumption come from? Walter Lippmann, one of the founding fathers of neoliberalism, offers us an important hint: According to him, economics is capable to implant in people’s heads certain pictures about the world which unconsciously guide both our thinking and behavior without being themselves alterable by human creativity. This essay turns to three texts written by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill und Léon Walras in order to sketch out how economics has changed over the last two centuries in order to serve this purpose. At the same time it argues that this change is neither inevitable nor without alternative. Even in economics we can regain the power of creative thinking.
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Buchbesprechung:

• Johanna Hueck: Gemeinsam Vorstellen – Gemeinsam Denken.
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