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The Gathering of Reason

By John Sallis

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0791464539, 9780791464533
LCC
B2779 .S25 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
868 kB (888340 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Edition
2nd
Pages
197\217
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This second edition of The Gathering of Reason expands on John Sallis’s classic study of Kant’s First Critique. This study examines the relation of imagination to reason and to human knowledge and action in general. Moving simultaneously at several different hermeneutical levels, Sallis carries out an interpretation of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Although, in contrast to the Analytic, the Dialectic seldom refers explicitly to imagination, Sallis shows that the concept of reason in the Dialectic requires the complicity of imagination. Sallis demonstrates that for Kant, reason alone does not suffice for bringing before our minds the metaphysical ideas of the soul, the world, and God; rather it is through the force of imagination that these ideas are brought forth and made effective. A new preface situates the book in relation to Sallis’s later work, and an extensive afterword focuses on Kant and the Greeks.

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