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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808345603321

Autore

Sallis John <1938->

Titolo

The gathering of reason [[electronic resource] /] / John Sallis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2005

ISBN

0-7914-8327-4

1-4237-4419-5

Edizione

[2nd. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Dialectic

Imagination

Knowledge, Theory of

Reason

Transcendentalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interpretive horizons -- The transcendental dialectic -- The gathering of reason in the paralogisms -- The gathering of reason in the antinomies -- The gathering of reason in the ideal -- Reason, imagination, madness -- Metaphysical security and the play of imagination.

Sommario/riassunto

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.