Kant and the power of imagination:

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, showi...

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Main Author: Kneller, Jane 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487248
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487248
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487248
Summary: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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 172 pages)
ISBN:9780511487248
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511487248

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