Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.25.74.2

Beautiful Mind, Unconquerable Soul: Productive Imagination and the Unity of Kant’s System

Monika Jovanović ; University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the scope and relevance of Lara Ostaric’s thesis on “The ‘Moral Image’ of the ‘Supersensible within’” and the productive imagination that generates schema-analogues, as presented in her book The Critique of Judgment and The Unity of Kant’s Critical System. In the first part, I argue that this thesis represents a kind of a missing link connecting the first and the second of Kant’s Critiques, but also unites two aspects of Kant’s aesthetics: the one I call analytic and the one I call speculative. I further argue that productive imagination, in this way, allows us to glimpse beyond the limits of possible experience. In the second part, I argue that, starting from here, one could defend the view that Kant was an aesthetic cognitivist in a strong sense of the word. In the third part, I apply Ostaric’s thesis to Kant’s concept of the dynamically sublime.

Keywords

Kant; productive imagination; moral image of the supersensible; aesthetic cognitivism; dynamically sublime.

Hrčak ID:

340277

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/340277

Publication date:

1.12.2025.

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