Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is
confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does
it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene
seems overdone and passé? This book takes up these questions and
argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It
traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical
philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and
claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially
concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius,
influenced the development of nineteenth-century American
philosophy. The book identifies the central role of the imagination
in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic
treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the
observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a
type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous
with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way
of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and
cognitive neuroscience.
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