Full Description
In a new reading of Immanuel Kant's work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these - rather than the problem of reason - as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his critical-philosophical program to emerge, which includes his accounts of reason, politics and freedom as well as subjectivity and intersubjectivity, or sociabilities. Examining Kant's theorisation of the complexity of our phenomenological existence, the author explores his transcendental move that includes reason and understanding whilst emphasising the importance of the faculty of the imagination to undergird both, before moving to consider Kant's pluralised, transcendental notion of freedom. This outstanding book will appeal to scholars with interests in philosophy, politics, anthropology and sociology, working on questions of imagination, reason, subjectivities and human freedom.
Contents
Introduction: A Pragmatic Anthropology with Imaginative Intent; 1. Freedom as Release from Self-Incurred Tutelage; 2. Anthropological Investigations: Difficult Selves; 3. The Critique of Impure Reason: The Schematic Imagination; 4. The Harmony and Dissonance of the Beautiful and the Sublime; 5. Kant's Political-Cosmopolitan Notion of Freedom: Freedom, Society and Politics in the Context of Unsociable Sociability; 6. Creating Sociable Sociability: Practical Imagining; 7. Difficult Selves, Imagination and Blurred Sketches of Freedom
