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The Role of the Imagination in Legitimizing Power

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Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal

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Abstract

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This paper argues that the imagination plays an essential role in the (de)legitimization of power in two respects. First, the claim to power is legitimated by reciprocal belief in that claim, belief being a product of the imagination. I strengthen Paul ...