ISA

Overview

The Imaginary and Socio-Anthropology research centre is a new multidisciplinary facility, created through the merging of the Centre for Research on the Imaginary (CRI, EA 610), founded by Gilbert Durand, Paul Deschamps and Léon Cellier in 1966, and the Grenoble Sociology Laboratory Emotion, Engagement, Culture, Knowledge (EMC2-LSG, EA 1967).

It has a socio-anthropological focus, understood as the interdisciplinary study of man as a historical and cultural being, in relation to a natural and social environment. It was founded based on the observation that human beings do not exist without imagination, representations, discourse and desires (i.e. ideology), and it is a collective imagination that shapes the Anthropos in its intercultural dimension. Based on diachronic and synchronic approaches, the unit will explore relationships between nature/culture, individual/collective as well as sensitive/intelligible and affect/intellect.

Research projects