Sartre, Jean-Paul. 2004. The Imaginary. A Psychological Phenomenology of Imagination. London: Routledge. Frank, Thomas, Albrecht Koschorke, Susanne Lüdemann, and Ethel Matala de Mazza. 2002. Des Kaisers neue Kleider: über das Imaginäre politischer Herrschaft; Texte, Bilder, Lektüren. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1988. Culture and Political Crisis. ‘Watergate’ and Durkheimian Sociology. In Durkheimian Sociology. Cultural Studies, ed. Jeffrey C. Alexander, 187–224. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Iser, Wolfgang. 1993. The Fictive and the Imaginary. Charting Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. In sum, The International Journal of Social Imaginaries aims to pursue intersecting debates on forms of meaning, knowledge and truth as they have been historically instituted and reconfigured, both within disciplinary confines and beyond. It seeks to elucidate ‘the world in fragments’, and, in demanding the continued problematization of existing horizons, the journal, as symbolized by the labyrinth, refuses ultimate closure. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries, as an interdisciplinary refereed journal, therefore invites contributions from philosophy, social theory, historical sociology, political philosophy, political theory as well as anthropology, cultural and social geography, hermeneutics, phenomenology, comparative philosophy, critical theory, legal and constitutional theory, and other fields or disciplines that advance our understanding of the human condition. Although the journal will publish English language manuscripts, we shall also occasionally translate significant essays from a variety of other languages, European and Asian.

Taylor C (2011) Dilemmas and connections: selected essays. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA Alexander, Jeffrey C., Dominik Bartmanski, and Bernhard Giesen. 2012. Iconic Power. Materiality and Meaning in Social Life. New York/Houndmills: Palgrave. Ricoeur, Paul. 2007. Ideology and Utopia. In From Text to Action. Essays in Hermeneutics II, 308–324. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Salazar, Noel B. "Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond". Oxford: Berghahn Books. James, Paul (2019). "The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice". In Chris Hudson and Erin K. Wilson (ed.). Revisiting the Global Imaginary: Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities. Palgrave-McMillan.Binder, Werner. 2013. Abu Ghraib und die Folgen. Ein Skandal als ikonische Wende im Krieg gegen den Terror. Bielefeld: transcript. Andacht, Fernando. A Semiotic Framework for the Social Imaginary. Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway, 2000. Several authors have criticized Taylor by saying he is unduly affirming that the exclusive humanist position is less deep and fuller that that of transformative religion (McLennan 2008; Bernstein 2008) and even that the use of a sense of fullness is misleading per se (Ward 2008). Taylor’s own response goes along the lines of recognizing that it is impossible for positions defending belief (“strong religion”) and unbelief to apodictically prove their points and that in any of those stances there are meta-theoretical views which are also of a normative kind. (McLennan 2008, 2010). Differences between them may prove to be intractable. However, it would still be possible to phenomenologically describe (Casanova 2008) the ways in which human fullness is sought as belonging to a continuum between religion and exclusive humanism (Marty 2008). Manow, Philip. 2010. King’s Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation. Cambridge/Malden: Polity. J. Childers/G. Hentz eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 152

Taylor C (2013) Retrieving realism. In: Schear JK (ed) Mind, reason, and being-in-the-world: the McDowell-Dreyfus debate. Routledge, Abingdon, pp 61–90 Peter Olshavsky has analyzed the imaginary in the field of architecture. Based on the work of Taylor, the imaginary is understood as a category of understanding social praxis and the reasons designers give to make sense of these practices. Mosco, Vincent (2005-01-01). The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262633291.

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Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith. 1996. Social Science and Salvation. Risk Society as Mythical Discourse. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 25(4):251–262. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-1996-0401. Marcus, George E. (1995-04-01). Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226504445. Charles Taylor, "On Social Imaginary", at archive.org". Archived from the original on 2004-10-19 . Retrieved 2010-10-28. Kliebard, H. (2004). The struggle for the American curriculum 1893–1958 (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge Falmer.

Adams, Suzi. 2011. Arnason and Castoriadis’ Unfinished Dialogue: Articulating the World. European Journal of Social Theory 14(1):71–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431010394510. The lifeworld is a different matter. I tend to think that it was a transitional concept, and that we can now do without it. Husserl did not invent it, but his use of it became the main inspiration for later reformulations, sometimes with a very different thrust (think of the interpretation of the lifeworld in Habermas’s theory of communicative action). Husserl was trying to build a bridge between transcendental phenomenology and history; I think that this problem has now been neutralized – on the one hand by the post-transcendental turn of phenomenology and the focus on the world, on the other by Castoriadis’s elucidation of the social-historical. In short, we now have conceptual resources that make the lifeworld redundant. Anderson, Benedict R. 2006. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Johann Arnason: The first thing I would want to say about the idea of social imaginaries is that it is a kind of crossroads concept, capable of bringing together insights and reflections from different sources. As you have argued, Castoriadis, Ricoeur and Taylor are the major thinkers whose works are essential to further elaboration. But some further connections may be suggested. Let us start with the sociological classics. Ball, S. (2012). Global education inc.: New policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary. London: Routledge.

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Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim. " Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea." Minerva 47, no. 2 (June 1, 2009): 119-146. Editorial Collective. 2015. The Social Imaginaries. Social Imaginaries 1(1):7–13. Editorial. https://doi.org/10.5840/si2015111.