Freydberg, Bernard
Imagination and Depth in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

This book shows Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' as undergirded by an ever-present imagination-driven depth, even where least expected (i.e. the Aesthetic, the B Deduction). Imagination as dark faculty of synthesis and as image-maker is disclosed as the seat of logic as well as of aesthetic. Logic and aesthetic are disclosed as abstractions from an originary synthesis which has always already occurred. This originary synthesis, which contains dark, unconscious elements as well as clearer ones, is the focus of the book. The analysis concentrates primarily on the first half of the Critique, exhibiting the ever-present depth belonging to all human knowing, and reason's conflict with itself when this depth is forgotten. 123 Seiten, gebunden (Literature and the Sciences of Man; Vol. 6/Peter Lang Verlag 1994) leicht berieben/slightly rubbed