Unpacking ‘the Imaginary Texture of the Real’ with Kant, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty

In this paper I put forward a concept of the imagination which weaves together many of the key and overlapping dichotomies around which discussions of the imagination have circled: dichotomies between the productive and reproductive, between presence and absence, between creativity or spontaneity and receptivity or passivity, between invention and disclosure, between cognition and affect. Inter-implicated with these dichotomies is that between imagination and perception. Utilising the work of Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and in critical conversation with Sartre, I distil an account of the imagination which cuts across these dichotomies, delineating a capacity which is at work in perception, as well as in the range of activities of “phantasing” or “conjuring up”, to which the term is often restricted

Aesthetics · Conversation · Creativity · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Perception · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Unpacking · Communication · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology

• Kant’s View of Imagination

  J Michael Young•Kant-Studien•1988

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