Spacings--of Reason and Imagination : In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel

The University of Chicago Press

Spacings--of Reason and ImaginationIn Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel\nAuthor(s): John Sallis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226734415, 978-0226734415\nSynopsis\nBy applying the tools of deconstruction to crucial texts of German Idealism, John Sallis reveals the suppressed but essential role of imagination in even the most ambitious attempts to represent pure reason. \n\nSallis focuses on certain operations of \""spacing\"" in metaphysicstextual lapses and leaps in which reason is displaced or suspended or abridged. In the project of establishing priority of reason, such operations can appear only in disguise, and Sallis reveals the play of imagination and metaphor that masks them. Concentrating on what has been called the closure of metaphysics, he examines texts in which the suppression of spacing would be carried out most rigorously, texts in which even metaphysics itself is seen as only .