Imagination was dismissed from theory because of its liberal-freedom connotations

Evidence

The idea of imagination (Einbildungskraft) in the school of German Romanticism has been intrinsically associated with liberal philosophy’s ethos of individual freedom, from which Marx, Weber, and their present-day intellectual heirs have been intent on distancing themselves. At the same time, the conceptual disregard for the imagination has gone hand in hand with a systematic overemphasis on reason. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 147

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether this causal story may overstate — Bottici’s argument cited rather than demonstrated.
• XREF: connects to: Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities theory leaves imagination itself untheorized. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 104; Western thought has treated imagination as fantasy or individual genius, not social — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 33; Western philosophy’s equating of imagination with fantasy delegitimizes it as irrational (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities theory leaves imagination itself untheorized. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 104; Western thought has treated imagination as fantasy or individual genius, not social — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 33; Western philosophy’s equating of imagination with fantasy delegitimizes it as irrational (+4 more)