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Book SynopsisBy offering an original elucidation of the notion of the imagination in the writings ofImmanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Cornelius Castoriadis, this book addresses and brings to the fore the significance of the imagination as the ontological source of human creation.Principally inspired by Castoriadis’s revolutionary elucidation of the imagination and the imaginary, this book actively contributes to this neglected line of enquiry by exposing deep lines of continuity and rupture both within and between the revolutionary writings of Kant, Fichte, and Castoriadis. Beginning with Kant’s hesitation in describing the productive imagination as a creative power, this book traces these lines of continuity and rupture through an elucidation of the form and content of Fichte’s philosophical system, known as the Wissenschaftslehre, and through an elucidation of Castoriadis’s remarkable concept of the radical imaginary.Engaging with these lines of continuity and rupture allows this book to contribute to the landscape of thinking by offering a new elucidation of the imagination in the formof the “embodied imagination.”
Table of ContentsPREFACE: Written by Professor John Rundell
PRELUDE: The Indeterminacy of Human Creation
FIRST MOVEMENT: The “Unknown” Seed of Indeterminacy—The Imagination in the Writings of Immanuel Kant
CHAPTER ONE: The “Unknown” Seed of Indeterminacy.
CHAPTER TWO: The Power of “Synthesis”—First Edition of the Critique of Pure Reason
CHAPTER THREE: The Power of “Representing”—Second Edition of the Critique of Pure Reason.
CHAPTER FOUR: The Power of Exhibition—Schematism of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding.
CHAPTER FIVE: The “Feeling of Life”—Critique of Judgment.
CHAPTER SIX: The Creative Power of the “Productive Imagination”
SECOND MOVEMENT: The “Absolutely Incomprehensible” Seed of Indeterminacy. The Imagination in the Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte
CHAPTER SEVEN: The “Absolutely Incomprehensible” Seed of Indeterminacy.
CHAPTER EIGHT: Geist—‘Concerning the Difference between the Spirit and the Letter within Philosophy’.
CHAPTER NINE: The “Creative Imagination”—The Science of Knowledge.
THIRD MOVEMENT: The “Radical” Seed of Indeterminacy—The Imagination and the Imaginary in the Writings of Cornelius Castoriadis
CHAPTER TEN: The “Radical” Seed of Indeterminacy.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The “Radical Imaginary”
CHAPTER TWELVE: The “Nonconscious”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Creative Imaginary
FOURTH MOVEMENT: The “Embodied” Seed of Indeterminacy
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