Kant's theory of imagination : bridging gaps in judgement and experience / Sarah L. Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbons, Sarah L.

Series:

Oxford philosophical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Philosophy of mind.

Ethics, Modern--18th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Summary:

This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. In Kant's works, human experience is simultaneously passive and active, thought and sensed, free and unfree: these dualisms are often thought of as unfortunate byproducts of his system. Gibbons, however, shows that imagination performs a vital function in "bridging gaps" between the different elements of cognition and experience. Thus, the role imagination plays in Kant's works expresses his fundamental insight into the complexity of cognition for finite rational beings such as ourselves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198240414

OCLC:

30437239