Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination: Studies in Kantianism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics [Hardcover]

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.

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.

The volume offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.

Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of the Horizon in Husserls Phenomenology (2012), co-editor of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), and Phenomenological Ethics (A Special Issue of Santalka: Filosofija, 17/3, 2009).This quite remarkable collection of essays on the productive imagination offers a rich repast well deserving to be savored in multiple sittings. The essays demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of the topic and offer productive efforts themselves to deepen and extend the subject. Kudos to Saulius Geniusas as editor for gathering such a thought-provoking group of authors. George H. Taylor, Professor of Law, University of PittsburghIntroduction / Chapter 1. G?nter Z?ller: The Productive Power of the Imagination. Kant on the Schematism of the Understanding and the Symbolism of Reason / Chapter 2. Eric S. Nelson: Wilhelm Dilthey and the Formative-Generative Imagination / Chapter 3. Claudio Majolino: Within and Beyond Productive Imagination. A Historical-Critical Inquiry ilcI