Kant and the power of imagination / Jane Kneller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kneller, Jane, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Kant & the Power of Imagination

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human social and moral development, showing various ways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moral interests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within the context of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century, arguing that Kant's contribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral education and the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing, her book brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kant and Novalis, into dialogue. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Contents:

Kant and Romanticism

The power of imaginative freedom

The interests of disinterest

Aesthetic reflection and the primacy of the practical

The failure of Kant's imagination

Imaginative reflections of the self in Novalis and Hölderlin

Novalis' Kantianism and Kant's Romanticism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16524-5

1-280-81547-7

0-511-27525-0

0-511-27455-6

0-511-27297-9

0-511-48724-X

0-511-32304-2

0-511-27376-2

OCLC:

252535560