In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creativepower in Kants aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. Sheanalyzes Kan... » 

In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creativepower in Kants aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. Sheanalyzes Kants account of imaginative freedom and the relation betweenimaginative free play and human social and moral development showing variousways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moralinterests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within thecontext of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century arguing that Kantscontribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral educationand the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing herbook brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment andRomanticism Kant and Novalis into dialogue. It will be of interest to a widerange of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenthand nineteenth centuries. «