Cahiers Européens de l’Imaginaire (European Notebooks on the Imaginary) is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 social science and humanities

Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....

 journal

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 directed by Michaël V. Dandrieux and Vincenzo Susca. Although original in its scientific and graphic conception, the CEI sprung from an earlier quasi-homonymous journal, the Cahiers de l’Imaginaire which was founded in 1988 by Michel Maffesoli

Michel Maffesoli

Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...

 and Gilbert Durand

Gilbert Durand

Gilbert Durand is a French academic known for his work on the imagination and mythology.He was teacher of philosophy from 1947 to 1956, then professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Grenoble II. Gilbert Durand was the co-founder - with Léon Cellier and Paul Deschamps in 1966 - and the director...

. Established in 2009, it is published on an annual basis by the CNRS editions. Its approach is resolutely transdisciplinary and multilingual - it features contributions in English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. The journal publishes articles by many of the leading European intellectuals and social scientists, such as: Alberto Abruzzese, Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...

, Michel Maffesoli

Michel Maffesoli

Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...

, Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist born Edgar Nahoum in Paris on July 8, 1921. He is of Judeo-Spanish origin. He is known for the transdisciplinarity of his works.- Biography :...

, Serge Moscovici

Serge Moscovici

Serge Moscovici is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale , which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris...

.