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- Title
Concept-less Schemata: The Reciprocity of Imagination and Understanding in Kant's Aesthetics.
- Authors
Filieri, Luigi
- Abstract
In this paper, I discuss Kant's concept-less schematism (KU, 5: 287) in the third Critique and make three claims: 1) concept-less schematism is entirely consistent with the schematism in the first Critique; 2) concept-less schematism is schematism with no empirical concept as an outcome; and 3) in accordance with 1) and 2), the imagination is free to synthesize the given manifold and leads to judgements of taste without this meaning either that the categories play no role at all or that these judgements are full-fledged cognitive determining judgements. While most commentators read the freedom of the imagination as its independence from the understanding, I argue that the freedom of the imagination is based on a non-determining employment of the pure concepts of the understanding. The freedom of the aesthetic imagination consists in the temporal schematization of the categories without any complementary determination of the empirical concept.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4, p511
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415421000480