Kant's Critical Imagination - by Cody Staton (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examines the turning point in modern philosophy in which Kant overcomes previous philosophical systems through his theory of imagination.

Book Synopsis

This book examines the turning point in modern philosophy in which Kant overcomes previous philosophical systems through his theory of imagination.

Cody Staton claims that Kant's decision to describe the imagination as mediating between the self and the world created an irrevocable philosophical standpoint. For Kant, since the imagination assists all the powers of the mind, it plays a critical role in the function of all philosophy. This applies to our ideas of God, the soul, the beauty that we experience in nature, the creation and enjoyment of art, and the very idea of life itself.

Review Quotes

One must warmly welcome Cody Staton's book on Kant for giving full attention to the role of imagination throughout the entire range of Kant's critical philosophy. It is written lucidly, intelligently and with impressive knowledge of Kant's corpus. It helpfully communicates the importance of the schematism as transcendental, as empirical and mathematical, as reflection relative to aesthetics and teleology, as moral in relation to practical reason and imagining hope. A signal excellence of the book is that, in gathering together the different senses of the schematism, it offers an illuminating perspective on Kant's philosophy as a whole. Warmly recommended.--William Desmond, KU Leuven, Belgium