Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

by John Kaag

Book Overview

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 pass ?

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531501842
• ISBN13: 9781531501846
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"