Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason

by Bernard Freydberg

Overview

With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close
reading of Kant's second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an
interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as
both its central force and the bridge that links Kant's three critiques. Freydberg's
reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant's ethics calls
for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for
self-fulfillment becomes an enormously creative endeavor once imagination is
understood as the heart of Kantian ethics. Seasoned scholars and newer students will
find a surprising and provocative view of Kant's ethics in this straightforward and
accessible book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253111586
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	10/04/2005
Series:	Studies in Continental Thought
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	305 KB

About the Author

Bernard Freydberg is Professor of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University.
He is author of Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; The Play of
the Platonic Dialogues; and Provocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and
Others).

Table of Contents

ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on the Text and on Page
References

Prologue. From the Critique of Pure Reason to the
Critique of Practical ReasonIntroduction. Weapons of War: Preliminary Reflections on
the Practical in the Critique of Pure ReasonPart 1. Analytic of Pure Practical
ReasonCh. 1. Principles of Pure Practical Reason: Imagination and Moral
"Derivation"Ch. 2. The Concept of an Object of Pure Practical Reason: Imagination,
Good and Evil, and the TypicCh. 3. The Incentives (Triebfeder) of Pure Practical
Reason: Incentive-Creating Imagination and Moral FeelingPart 2. Dialectic and
Methodology of Pure Practical ReasonCh. 4. Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason in
General and ImaginationCh. 5. Imagination and the Postulates of Immortality and
GodCh. 6. Imagination and the Moral Extension of ReasonCh. 7. Methodology of Pure
Practical Reason: Images and EcstasyConclusion(s)Epilogue: From the Critique of
Practical Reason to the Critique of Judgment

Notes
BibliographyIndex