Charles Taylor, "On Social Imaginary", at archive.org". Archived from the original on 2004-10-19 . Retrieved 2010-10-28. Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith. 2003. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology. Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics. In The Meanings of Social Life. A Cultural Sociology, ed. Jeffrey C. Alexander, 11–26. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Andacht, Fernando. A Semiotic Framework for the Social Imaginary. Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway, 2000. Several media scholars and historians have analyzed the imaginary of technologies as they emerge, such as early communication technology, [23] mobile phones, [24] and the Internet. [25] [26] Serial imaginary [ edit ]

Iser, Wolfgang. 1993. The Fictive and the Imaginary. Charting Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Blyth, J. (1983). English university adult education 1908–1958: The unique tradition. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 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). Arnason, Johann P. 1989. The Imaginary Constitution of Modernity. In Autonomie et autotransformation de la société: La philosohie militante Revue Europeene des Sciences Sociales, Vol. XXVII, ed. Giovanni Busino, 323–337. Geneva: Droz.Taylor C (1989) Sources of the self: the making of the modern identity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA Searle, John R. 1978. Literal Meaning. Erkenntnis 13(1):207–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00160894. Smith, Philip. 2005. Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Vries, Imar de (2012-01-01). Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789089643544. For John Thompson, the social imaginary is "the creative and symbolic dimension of the social world, the dimension through which human beings create their ways of living together and their ways of representing their collective life". [1] Dreyfus, Hubert L. 1991. Being-in-the-World. A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I. Cambridge: MIT 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. Then there is Taylor’s chapter on the creativity of discourse, where the imagination is constantly invoked sotto vo 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 Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination in which Sartre discusses his concept of the imagination and the nature of human consciousness. Subsequent thinkers have extended Sartre's ideas into the realms of philosophy and sociology.

As one would expect, other debates have occurred in connection with Taylor’s use “transcendence” as part of the theoretical tools for his narrative, which I am not mentioning because they fall beyond the scope of my study.

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.