Kant's Power of Imagination

This Element is a study of how the power of imagination, according to Kant, contributes to cognition.

Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Author)

9781108464031, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 May 2018

100 pages
23 x 15.3 x 0.6 cm, 0.2 kg

This Element is a study of how the power of imagination is, according to Kant, supposed to contribute to cognition. It is meant to be an immanent and a reconstructive endeavor, relying solely on Kant's own resources when he tries to determine what material, faculties, and operations are necessary for cognition of objects. The main discourse is divided into two sections. The first deals with Kant's views concerning the power of imagination as outlined in the A- and B- edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. The second focuses on the power of imagination in the first part of the Critique of Judgment.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of mind [HPM], Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], Philosophy [HP]