Spacings--Of Reason and Imagination: In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel

by John Sallis

Book Overview

By applying the tools of deconstruction to crucial texts of German Idealism, John Sallis reveals the suppressed but essential role of imagination in even the most ambitious attempts to represent pure reason.

Sallis focuses on certain operations of "spacing" in metaphysics--textual lapses and leaps in which reason is displaced or suspended or abridged. In the project of establishing priority of reason, such operations can appear only in disguise,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226734412
• ISBN13: 9780226734415
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"