Imagination in Kant's critical philosophy / edited by Michael L. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Michael L., 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination (Philosophy).

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages )

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant's critical philosophy is rife with conflicting and aporetic doctrines. Amongst several difficult doctrines, one of the most salient and obscure discussions surrounds Kant's view of the imagination, Einbildungskraft. One finds Kant's initial discussion of the imagination in the section entitled, the Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason; by Kant's own admission, the section that cost him the most labor. Instrumental in these most critical passages is Kant's discussion of the imagination, but, due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change in doctrine from the 1st to the 3rd Critique, Kant's considered view of the imagination remains unclear. Many scholars eschew the discussion altogether, considering it arcana of an obsolete faculty psychology. Even prominent Kant scholars have typically overlooked or marginalized pivotal sections in Kant's works in order to avoid dealing with this issue. Recently, however, a new interest in the imagination has resurfaced. This volume is a collection of essays that addresses the many uses of imagination throughout Kant's entire critical corpus, and intends to gain a better understanding of this lacuna.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Thompson, Michael

Imaginative Sensibility Understanding, Sensibility, and Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason / Nuzzo, Angelica

Art and Imagination in Mathematics / Wenzel, Christian Helmut

The Transcendental Synthesis of Imagination / Banham, Gary

Symbols, Mental Images, and the Imagination in Kant / Axinn, Sidney

Functions of Imagination in Kant's Moral Philosophy / Freydberg, Bernard

The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason / Mattos, Fernando Costa

Imagining our World / Kneller, Jane

Imagination and Freedom in the Kantian Sublime / Brady, Emily

Imagination, Progress and Evolution / Schönfeld, Martin

Recontextualizing Kant's Theory of Imagination / Makkreel, Rudolf

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110274653

3110274655

OCLC:

1013955345