Imagination in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Imagination in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Edited by: Michael L. Thompson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110274653

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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 pyschology. 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.

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Michael Thompson, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Introduction Michael Thompson Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Imaginative Sensibility Understanding, Sensibility, and Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason Angelica Nuzzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Art and Imagination in Mathematics Christian Helmut Wenzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
The Transcendental Synthesis of Imagination Gary Banham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Symbols, Mental Images, and the Imagination in Kant Sidney Axinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Functions of Imagination in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Bernard Freydberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason A Possible Place for Imagination in Kant’s Moral Philosophy? Fernando Costa Mattos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Imagining our World Affinity and Hope in Kant’s Theory of Imagination Jane Kneller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Imagination and Freedom in the Kantian Sublime Emily Brady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Imagination, Progress and Evolution Martin Schönfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Recontextualizing Kant’s Theory of Imagination Rudolf Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scientists, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 225
Keywords: Epistemology; Imagination; Kant; Immanuel; Metaphysics

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Published: May 29, 2013
ISBN: 9783110274653

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Published: May 21, 2013
ISBN: 9783110274530

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Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110481655