If politics is to overcome its reduction to the habitual power and property (re)distribution, it urgently needs to first shape a political imagination that can offer a vocabulary of new practice, concepts, ideas and transformative ways of making this other politics possible. A new political imagination that has any agency cannot be willed into being and arrive out of a eureka moment. It requires arriving out of a clear understanding of the imperatives to which it has to respond, and from a context of intellectual substance that informs it and anchors it to agency, which is to say it cannot just be purely an invention of idealism. This chapter addresses these challenges and provides a starting point to which others can respond. In making the case for a new political imagination, the dysfunction and dislocation of politics will be situated in ways which will make clear the inadequacy of current presentations of the crisis of democracy.