Kant's Transcendental Imagination

GARY BANHAM is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Kant's Practical Philosophy: From Critique to Doctrine and Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics. He is the editor of Husserl and the Logic of Experience and co-editor of Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity.

The role and place of transcendental psychology in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has been a source of some contention. This work presents a detailed argument for restoring transcendental psychology to a central place in the interpretation of Kant's Analytic, in the process providing a detailed response to more 'austere' analytic readings.The role and place of transcendental psychology in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has been a source of some contention. The acceptance of the notion of transcendental psychology in recent years has been in connection to functionalist views of the mind which has detracted from its metaphysical significance. This work presents a detailed argument for restoring transcendental psychology to a central place in the interpretation of Kant's Analytic, in the process providing a detailed response to more 'austere' analytic readings.