"By offering an original elucidation of the notion of the imagination in the writings of Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte, and Cornelius Castoriadis, this book addresses and brings to the fore the significance of the imagination as the ontological source of human creation"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prelude: The Indeterminacy of Human Creation
  • Notes
• Part I: The Unknown Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Immanuel Kant
• Chapter 1: The Unknown Seed of Indeterminacy
  • Emergent Antinomies: Reason, Imagination and the Domain of Freedom
  • The “Disquieting” Nature of the Unknown Seed of Indeterminacy
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: The Productive Imagination – A Power of Synthesis A Priori
  • The Power of Synthesis – An Action of the Imagination
  • The Power of Threefold Synthesis – An Action of the Transcendental Imagination
  • The Power of Synthesis A Priori – The Productive Imagination
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: The Productive Imagination – A Power of Representing
  • The Power of Synthesis – An Action of the Understanding
  • Synthesis Intellectualis
  • Figurative Synthesis – An Action of the Productive Imagination
  • Synthesis of Apprehension – An Action of the Empirical Faculty of the Productive Imagination
  • Synthesis Speciosa – An Action of the A Priori Faculty of the Productive Imagination
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: The Productive Imagination – A Determinate Power of Exhibition
  • The Action of Schematism
  • The Action of the Productive Imagination
  • Figurative Synthesis – The Action of a Transcendental Schematism
  • The Determinate Power of Exhibition – An Action of the Productive Imagination
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: The Productive Imagination – An Indeterminate Power of Exhibition
  • The Power of Exhibition
  • Emergent Antinomies: The Concepts of Nature and the Concepts of Freedom
  • The Subjective Action of Schematism
  • The Indeterminate Power of Exhibition – An Action of the Productive Imagination
  • Judgements of the Beautiful – The Limitlessness of the Power of Exhibition
  • Judgements of the Sublime – The Limits of the Power of Exhibition
  • The Negative Darstellung – The Indeterminacy of the Power of Exhibition
  • Notes
• Chapter 6: The Productive Imagination – The Act of Creation
  • The Productive Power of Imagination and the Creation of Form
  • A Critique of the Productive Power of the Transcendental Imagination
  • Notes
• Part II: The Absolutely Incomprehensible Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Chapter 7: The Absolutely Incomprehensible Seed of Indeterminacy
  • Wissenschaftslehre and Domain of Freedom
  • Notes
• Chapter 8: The Absolutely Creative Imagination
  • The Productive Imagination
  • The Reproductive Imagination
  • The Absolutely Creative Imagination
  • Notes
• Chapter 9: The Creative Imagination
  • The Fundamental Principles of the Entire Science of Knowledge
  • The Indeterminacy of the Foundation of Theoretical Knowledge
  • The Indeterminacy of the Foundation of Knowledge of the Practical
  • Notes
• Part III: The Radical Seed of Indeterminacy in the Writings of Cornelius Castoriadis
• Chapter 10: The Radical Seed of Indeterminacy
  • The Radical Imaginary
  • Notes
• Chapter 11: The Radical Imagination
  • The Level of the Merely Real – Simply Being
  • The Region of the Living Being – The Corporeal Dimension of the Radical Imagination
  • The Region of the Psychical – The Defunctionalized Dimension of the Radical Imagination
  • Notes
• Chapter 12: The Radical Imaginary
  • The Region of the Psychical – The Radical Imaginary
  • The Region of the Social Individual – The Radical Imaginary
  • The Region of Society – The Radical Imaginary
  • Notes
• Chapter 13: The Creative Imaginary
  • The Level of the Not Merely Real – Reflexively Being
  • The Region of the Human Subject – The Creative Imaginary
  • The Region of Autonomous Society – The Creative Imaginary
  • Notes
• Chapter 14: The Creative Imagination
  • The Creation of Figures of the Thinkable
  • Notes
• Part IV: The Embodied Seed of Indeterminacy
• Chapter 15: The Embodied Seed of Indeterminacy
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author