Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question with particular focus on hermeneutics phenomenology and neo-Kantianism.<BR /><BR />The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. The authors show how imagination forms experience at the kinaesthetic pre-linguistic poetic historical artistic social and political levels.<BR /><BR />The volume offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.