Kant's Theory of Imagination: Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198240419)

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.

Author: Sarah L. Gibbons
ISBN-10: 0198240414
ISBN-13: 9780198240419
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/1994
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d