Kant's Critical Imagination

Cody Staton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University System of Georgia. He is the translator and editor of two forthcoming titles with Takeshi Morisato, The Early Work of Tannabe Hajime (1910-1919), (Rowman & Littlefield) and Kant's Theory of Teleology According to Tanabe Hajime (Chisokudō Publications). He serves as an editor of the leading journal in romantic philosophy, Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations of Kant’s WorksIntroduction: A Schema for Philosophy0.1 Reception0.2 StructureChapter 1. Imagination: Critical Beginnings, 1770–811.1 Imagination in German Rationalism: Wolff and Baumgarten1.2 Hume’s Theory of Imagination and its Influence on Kant’s CritiqueChapter 2. Schematism as Catalyst to Critical Philosophy2.1 Time and Coordination in the Dissertation2.2 Kant’s Development of Time-Determination in the Duisburg Nachlaß2.3 Tetens’s Critique of Kant on Space and Time2.4 Imagination and Time in the A-Deduction2.5 The Categories and Their Relation to TimeChapter 3. Transcendental Schematism3.1 Imagination, Time, and Inner Sense3.2 The Schema of Quantity3.3 The Schema of Quality3.4 The Schemata of Relation3.5 The Schemata of Modality3.6 Final RemarksChapter 4. Empirical and Mathematical Schematism4.1 Mathematical Schematism4.2 Kant’s Dog: Empirical Schematism4.3 Time-Images: Empirical Schematism as Image Production4.4 Empirical Schematism as Concept FormationChapter 5. Imagination and Transcendental Objects5.1 The Concept of an Object As Such (= X)5.2 Transcendental Illusion and the Ideas of Reason5.3 Kant’s Account of Illusion: The focus imaginarius from Dreams to the First Critique5.4 Reason’s Imaginary Focus and the Transcendental Object5.5 Reason’s Regulative Pursuit of Imaginary IdeasChapter 6. Reflective Schematism: Imagination in Aesthetics and Teleology6.1 Aesthetic Schematism and The Free Play of the Faculties6.2 The Aesthetic Promotion of Cognition: From Imitation to Emulation and Evaluation6.3 The “Failure” of Schematism in the Encounter with the Sublime6.4 Organized Artists of Nature: Imagination and Teleological JudgmentChapter 7: Moral Schematism: Imagination and Practical Reason7.1 Moral Schematism7.2 Imagining What I May Hope ForConclusion: Philosophy as Imagining Nature a Second TimeIndex

One must warmly welcome Cody Staton’s book on Kant for giving full attention to the role of imagination throughout the entire range of Kant’s critical philosophy. It is written lucidly, intelligently and with impressive knowledge of Kant’s corpus. It helpfully communicates the importance of the schematism as transcendental, as empirical and mathematical, as reflection relative to aesthetics and teleology, as moral in relation to practical reason and imagining hope. A signal excellence of the book is that, in gathering together the different senses of the schematism, it offers an illuminating perspective on Kant’s philosophy as a whole. Warmly recommended.