Kant's Magic Lantern
Historical Epistemology and Media Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5035811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Andriopoulo, Stefan Andriopoulos (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-70 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2011.115.1.42 |
| OpenAlex | W2053164256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay juxtaposes Kant's critical epistemology with the visual medium of the phantasmagoria and a contemporaneous debate about spirit apparitions. Kant's notion of Erscheinung as an appearance or apparition of a supersensory thing in itself draws on the previous hypothesis of genuine spirit apparitions from his Dreams of a Spirit Seer (1766). His doctrine of transcendental illusion, by contrast, adapts a second, skeptical explanation of spirit visions by describing speculative metaphysics as a "magic lantern of brain phantoms." Kant thereby transforms the optical instrument into an epistemological figure, highlighting the unreliability and limits of philosophical knowledge
Art · Art history · Doctrine · Epistemology · Falsity · Illusion · Lantern · Literature · Metaphysics · Physics · Skepticism · Theology · Transcendental number · Vision · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |