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Kant's critical philosophy is rife with conflicting and aporetic doctrines. Amongst several difficult doctrines, one of the most salient and obscure discussions surrounds Kant's view of the imagination, __Einbildungskraft__. One finds Kant's initial discussion of the imagination in the section entitled the Transcendental Deduction in his __Critique of Pure Reason__; by Kant's own admission, the section that cost him the most labor. Instrumental in these most critical passages is Kant's discussion of the imagination, but, due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change in doctrine from the 1st to the 3rd __Critique__, Kant's considered view of the imagination remains unclear. Many scholars eschew the discussion altogether, considering it __arcana__ of an obsolete faculty pyschology. Even prominent Kant scholars have typically overlooked or marginalized pivotal sections in Kant's works in order to avoid dealing with this issue. Recently, however, a new interest in the imagination has resurfaced. This volume is a collection of essays that addresses the many uses of imagination throughout Kant's entire critical corpus, and intends to gain a better understanding of this __lacu

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Author

Michael L. Thompson (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110481655

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, History