Kant's Theory of Imagination Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience [Hardcover]

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.

Gibbons contributes to recent efforts to appreciate the global concerns of Kant's critical system by elaborating the central role of imagination in the theory of judgment spanning Kant's entire enterprise. --Ethics

This work goes well beyond many books on theCritique of Judgmentin the breadth and importance of the issues it raises... --The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism