Stretching the limits of productive imagination

studies in kantianism, phenomenology and hermeneutics

Edited by
Saulius Geniusas

Social imaginaries | 1

Rowman & Littlefield

2018

Abstract

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.

Reviews

• Roger Savage, "S. Geniusas, Stretching the limits of productive imagination" Phenomenological Reviews 4, 2018, pp. 58-58