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Kant's Theory of Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Samantha Matherne, Harvard University) Matherne, Samantha (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities

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Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we exercise only in relation to objects that are not real or not present, Matherne argues that Kant theorizes imagination as something that we exercise just as much in relation to objects that are real and present. In short, she attributes to Kant a view of imagining as something that pervades our lives. In order to bring out this pervasiveness, Matherne offers an account of what kind of mental capacity Kant takes imagination to be in general. She then explores Kants picture of how we exercise our imagination in perception, ordinary experience, the appreciation of beauty and sublimity, the production of art, the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of morality. However, she makes the case that Kants analysis of this wide range of phenomena is underwritten by a unified theory of what imagination is, as a remarkably flexible cognitive capacity that we can exercise in constrained and creative, playful and serious ways.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-07
Mått65 x 240 x 30 mm
Vikt824 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198898283

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Samantha Matherne is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. She is the author of Cassirer for the Routledge Philosophers Series and one of the authors of The Geography of Taste, along with Dominic McIver Lopes, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay (OUP 2024). She is the editor of the first English translation of the work of the German philosopher, Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Essays on Art, Aesthetics, and Value, translated by Daniel Dahlstrom (in Oxford's New History of Philosophy Series, 2023). She has also published articles on Immanuel Kant, Post-Kantian traditions, and Aesthetics.

IntroductionPart I Imagination in General1: Imagination as a Cognitive Capacity2: Imagination and the Two Stems of Cognition3: Imagination Is Part of Sensibility4: Three Definitions of ImaginationPart II Imagination in Perception and Experience5: Empirical Imagination in Perception and Experience6: A Priori Imagination and the Conditions of Experience I: The Transcendental Deduction7: A Priori Imagination and the Conditions of Experience II: The SchematismPart III Imagination in Aesthetics8: Imagination and the Appreciation of Beauty9: Artistic Imagination10: Imagination and the SublimePart IV Imagination in Practical Agency and Morality11: The Possibility of Moral Imagination12: Imaginative Sight and the Faculty of Desire13: Imaginative Exhibition in MoralityConclusion