Kant and the Power of Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521851435)

In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human social and moral development, showing various ways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moral interests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within the context of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century, arguing that Kant's contribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral education and the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing, her book brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kant and Novalis, into dialogue. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author: Jane Kneller
ISBN-10: 0521851432
ISBN-13: 9780521851435
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2007
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.39w x 0.71d