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  title info:
    title: Seeing more
    sub title: Kant's theory of imagination
  name:
    name part: Matherne, Samantha
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kantâs theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we exercise only in relation to objects that are not real or not present, Matherne argues that Kant theorizes imagination as something that we exercise just as much in relation to objects that are real and present. In short, she attributes to Kant a view of imagining as something that pervades our lives. In order to bring out this pervasiveness, Matherne offers an account of what kind of mental capacity Kant takes imagination to be in general. She then explores Kant's picture of how we exercise our imagination in perception, ordinary experience, the appreciation of beauty and sublimity, the production of art, the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of morality. However, she makes the case that Kant's analysis of this wide range of phenomena is underwritten by a unified theory of what imagination is, as a remarkably flexible cognitive capacity that we can exercise in constrained and creative, playful and serious ways.
  note: Samantha Matherne.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-423) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kant, Immanuel
      name part: 1724-1804
  subject:
    topic: Imagination
  subject:
    topic: Imagination (Philosophy)
  classification: B2799.I55 M38 2024
  classification: 128.3
  classification: 134.2
  identifier: 0198898282
  identifier: 9780198898283
  identifier: 9780198898306
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240121
    record change date: 20250804154606.8
    record identifier: in00005508465