Kant's Theory of Imagination

This book departs from much of the scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant''s philosophy as a whole. In Kant''s works human experience is simultaneously passive and active thought and sensed free and unfree: these dualisms are often thought of as unfortunate byproducts of his system. Gibbons however shows that imagination performs a vital function in bridging gaps between the different elements of cognition and experience. Thus the role imagination plays in Kant''s works expresses his fundamental insight into the complexity of cognition for finite rational beings such as ourselves.