Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Kant's Unconscious "Given" -- The 'I Think' Must Be Able To Accompany All My Representations -- Illusion and Strategy of Reason -- The Unconscious as Root of Kant's A Priori Sentimentalism -- Genius as a Chiasm of the Conscious and Unconscious: A History of Ideas Concerning Kantian Aesthetics -- Kant's Defeated Counterpart -- Pre-conceptual Aspects of Self-consciousness in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason -- Kant, Blows of Tears -- A Linneaus of Human Nature: The Pragmatic Deduction of Unconscious Thought in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology -- Logical Forms, Indeterminacy, and the Subjective Unity of Consciousness in Kant -- Non-Apperceptive Consciousness -- Kant on Unconscious Mental Activity -- Index
The unconscious raises relevant problems in the theory of knowledge as regards non-conceptual contents and obscure representations. In the philosophy of mind, it bears on the topic of the unity of consciousness and the notion of the transcendental Self. It is a key-topic of logic with respect to the distinction between determinate-indeterminate judgments and prejudices, and in aesthetics it appears in connection with the problems of reflective judgments and of the genius. Finally, it is a relevant issue also in moral philosophy in defining the irrational aspects of the human being. The purpose of the present volume is to fill a substantial gap in Kant research while offering a comprehensive survey of the topic in different areas of research, such as history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and anthropology.
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