[SydPhil] James Phillips on "Finitude and the Pre-Critical Imagination: Heidegger's Confrontation with Idealism in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and its Bearing on his Philosophy of Art", UNSW Philosophy Seminar, March 12, 12.30-2pm on Zoom

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UNSW Philosophy Seminar

“Finitude and the Pre-Critical Imagination: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Idealism in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and its Bearing on his Philosophy of Art”

 Speaker: James Phillips



Abstract:

Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1929) turns on a reading of the productive imagination in the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781). In siding with the imagination, Heidegger declares his dissent from the Neo-Kantianism of his contemporaries. Yet when Heidegger subsequently elaborates his philosophy of art in the 1930s, he is dismissive of the imagination altogether. His earlier partisanship was qualified. In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics Heidegger treats the productive imagination of Kant’s critical period as still a step short of Heidegger’s own problem of the time of finite human beings. German Idealism’s step past Kant is, for Heidegger, a step beyond, but in the wrong direction. The aesthetics of German Idealism builds on the unification of experience and conceptuality wrought by the productive imagination in its transcendental use, thereby inscribing in the work of art a neglect of finitude that Heidegger will dispute. If what Heidegger holds against the imagination is its transcendental use, the fully empirical concept of the imagination in Kant’s pre-critical writings invites reassessment in the light of an engagement with finitude. I will show it has particular promise for rehabilitating the imagination in a Heideggerian philosophy of art.



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Bio:

James Phillips is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2005), The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle (Oxford University Press, 2019) as well as the editor of Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema (Stanford University Press, 2008).. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/m47YCD1vlpT8VK8ZIWCg8j?domain=arts.unsw.edu.au







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16 March 2021



12.30 pm – 2 pm



Online via Zoom - Free attendance

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