The varieties of imagination: between cognitive spontaneity and mental disorder

Jesus, Paulo

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The varieties of imagination: between cognitive spontaneity and mental disorder

2023Book part

dc.contributor.author	Jesus, Paulo
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-24T16:06:32Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-24T16:06:32Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	Early Modern philosophy has devoted a special attention to the reproductive and productive cognitive operations fulfilled by imagination. For the two prominent philosophical currents, Rationalism and Empiricism, here represented by N. Malebranche (1638-1715) and David Hume (1711-1776), imagination constitutes first and foremost a mental activity that produces logical falsehood and moral misery. Against this backdrop, Kant’s proposal of a transcendental synthesis performed by productive imagination provokes a significant rehabilitation of the cognitive effectiveness of imagination. Indeed, this transcendental a priori power of synthesis testifies to the entanglement of imagination with understanding, in the sense that the productive synthesis of imagination accomplishes the determination of the inner sense by the understanding. By contrast, the aesthetic, poietic or inventive dimension of imagination as facultas fingendi opens up the realm of genius, beyond the intellectual discipline and productivity of transcendental imagination. Also, imagination can lose in diverse modes and degrees its connection with lawfulness, and thereby gives rise to various mental disorders. Therefore, Kant carefully distinguishes different modes of imaginative productive actions whose intellectual ordering provides the conditions of possibility of science and art.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Jesus, P. (2023). The Varieties of Imagination: Between Cognitive Spontaneity and Mental Disorder (pp. 39-76). In F. Silva & B. Dörflinger (Eds.), Kant on Poetry / Kant über Poesie. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-487-16086-3
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10451/59957
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Georg Olms	pt_PT
dc.relation	“Kant International Studia: Europe - South America" (KANTINSA/ H2020- MSCA-RISE, Grant agreement ID: 777786) DOI: 10.3030/777786.	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Reproductive imagination	pt_PT
dc.subject	Productive imagination	pt_PT
dc.subject	N. Malebranche	pt_PT
dc.subject	D. Hume	pt_PT
dc.subject	I. Kant	pt_PT
dc.title	The varieties of imagination: between cognitive spontaneity and mental disorder	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Hildesheim	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	77	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	39	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Kant on Poetry / Kant über Poesie	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	101	pt_PT
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