Kant's Theory of Imagination: Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience

by Sarah L. Gibbons

Overview

This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. In Kant's works, human experience is simultaneously passive and active, thought and sensed, free and unfree: these dualisms are often thought of as unfortunate byproducts of his system. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198240419
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/15/1994
Series:	Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.63(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Gibbons contributes to recent efforts to appreciate the global concerns of Kant's critical system by elaborating the central role of imagination in the theory of judgment spanning Kant's entire enterprise."—Ethics

"This work goes well beyond many books on the Critique of Judgment in the breadth and importance of the issues it raises..."—The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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