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Imagination in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason

By Bernard Freydberg

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0-253-34641-X, 9780253346414, 9780253111586, 0253111587, 9780253217875, 0-253-21787-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2987684 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
180\201
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close reading of Kant’s second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as both its central force and the bridge that links Kant’s three critiques. Freydberg’s reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant’s ethics calls for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for self-fulfillment becomes an enormously creative endeavor once imagination is understood as the heart of Kantian ethics. Seasoned scholars and newer students will find a surprising and provocative view of Kant’s ethics in this straightforward and accessible book.

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