Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

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{ 211 } Notes B 1. The Cultivation of the Imagination 1. The epigraph above is from Charles Peirce, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1–6, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, vols. 7–8, ed. Arthur W. Burks (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960). References to the Collected Papers will be given in the usual manner; e.g., CP 6:289. Peirce citations taken directly from the papers at Houghton Library will be given in the usual manuscript manner; e.g., MS 123. 2. John Dewey, Art as Experience [1934], in John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925–1953, ed. Jo Ann Boydson (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 12:277. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., 271. 5. Plato, Republic, 601. 6. Plato, Ion, 534. 7. Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination , and Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 145. 8. John Sallis, Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 6. 9. Ibid. 10. The epigraph to this section is from CP 1:46. 11. CP 1:201. 12. Italics mine. Dewey, Art as Experience, 278. 13. Douglas Anderson, Creativity and the Work of C. S. Peirce (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), 6. 14. Christopher Hookway, Peirce (London: Routledge, 1985), 155. 15. Charles Peirce, Reasoning and the Logic of Things, ed. K. Ketner (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), 161. 16. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought (New York: Harper Collins, 1999). 212 notes to pages 20–29 17. Italics mine. Antonio Damasio, “Some Notes on Brain, Imagination, and Creativity,” in The Origins of Creativity, ed. K. Pfenninger and V. Shubik (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001), 59. 18. Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi, A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 48. 19. Mary Warnock, Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 9. 20. Ibid. 21. Ibid., 10. 22. Douglas R. Anderson and Carl R. Hausman, Conversations on Peirce (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), 34. 23. Ibid., 65. 2. Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination 1. Sections of this chapter appeared in John Kaag, “Continuity and Inheritance : Kant’s Critique of Judgment and the Work of C. S. Peirce,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41, no. 3 (2005): 515–540. 2. Plato, Ion, 534C. 3. This gap is brought to light by various authors described below. Here, I am employing Eckart Förster’s language. Eckart Förster, Kant’s Final Synthesis: Essays on the Opus Postumum (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), 48–75. 4. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason [1781], trans. P. Guyer and A. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); The Critique of Judgment [1790], trans. W. Pluhar (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 1987). The Critique of Pure Reason will henceforth be referred to as CR in citations. The Critique of Judgment will be referred to as CJ. 5. Immanuel Kant, Opus Postumum [1794], trans. E. Förster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View [1798], trans. M. Gregor (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974). The Opus Postumum will be referred to as OP in citations. 6. Henry Allison and Donald Crawford both make this point in their analyses of Kant’s aesthetic. Henry Allison, Kant’s Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Judgment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 123–147; Donald Crawford, Kant’s Aesthetic Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974), 78–118; Donal Crawford, “Kant’s Theory of Creative Imagination,” in Essays in Kant’s Aesthetics, ed. Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer (1982), 151–178. 7. CR xxii. 8. Kuno Fischer, A Commentary on Kant’s Critik of Pure Reason (London: Longman and Green, 1866), 2. notes to pages 29–35 213 9. CR xxiv. 10. CR A79–81. 11. CR B143. 12. Henry Allison, Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004), 170. 13. CR A89–90. 14. CR B1. 15. CR A116–128. 16. CP 1.35. 17. MS 1004. 18. CP 1:39. 19. CP 1:39. 20. CR B152–169. 21. CR A135. 22. CR A138. 23. CR A138. 24. CR A138. This chapter falls short for many reasons. One noteworthy reason , not addressed in detail, is the fact that Kant spends most of the chapter dealing with time and “inner sense,” without specifying...