An edition of Kant's theory of imagination (1994)

Kant's theory of imagination

bridging gaps in judgement and experience

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An edition of Kant's theory of imagination (1994)

Kant's theory of imagination

bridging gaps in judgement and experience

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This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. For Kant, cognition and experience are simultaneously passive and active, thought and sensed, free and unfree. These dualisms are often considered unfortunate byproducts of his system. Sarah 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.

Dr Gibbons begins with an interpretation of synthesis which shows it to be a broader activity than most accounts suggest. Examining the first Critique, she presents a reading of the Transcendental Deduction and the chapter on Schematism that spells out the extraconceptual activities of imagination essential to cognition. This account of imagination is built upon in The Critique of Judgment, where Kant elaborates its role in characterizing the subjective conditions of judgement.

Gibbons highlights the cooperation of imagination and reason; she shows that on Kant's account, human beings pursue reason's ideal ends through the provisional and continuing attempt to articulate them. This attempt involves an appeal to a shared social and historical imagination - thus, a full characterization of the subjective conditions of judgement must include an account of the interaction between imagination and reason.

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English
Pages
205

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Kant's theory of imagination: bridging gaps in judgement and experience
1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford philosophical monographs

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
128/.3
Library of Congress
B2799.I55 G52 1994, B2799.I55G52 1994, B2799.I55 G52 1995

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Pagination
viii, 205 p. ;
Number of pages
205

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Open Library
OL1094367M
ISBN 10
0198240414
LCCN
94018812
OCLC/WorldCat
30437239
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2032287

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