Hypotyposis in Kant’s Metaphysics of Judgment : Symbolizing Completeness.

150 Pages·2019·0.816 MB·English

by  Clugston, Byron Ashley

Hypotyposis in Kant’s
Metaphysics of Judgment
Contemporary Studies in Idealism
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Hypotyposis in Kant’s Metaphysics of Judgment: Symbolizing Completeness,
by Byron Ashley Clugston
Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason’s Light,
by Stephen R. Palmquist
Hypotyposis in Kant’s
Metaphysics of Judgment
Symbolizing Completeness
Byron Ashley Clugston
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Contents
Preface ix
Introduction xiii
I Schematic and Symbolic Hypotyposis 1
II Ordinary Examples, Exemplary Symbols 19
III Structures of Conceptual Determination 43
IV Imagining the Rational 83
Conclusion 107
References 113
Index 117
About the Author 125
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Preface
The relish with which Michael Dummett justified his writing a certain kind
of Preface for his masterpiece on Frege1 prompts me to say a little about the
processes, external and internal, this work has passed through. In concert
with him, the hope here is that such an indulgence is a welcome pre-prandial
chitchat, a prolegomenon to the main dish, and a helpful elucidation of the
motivations behind cooking it up.
Though the draft manuscript was written in Mexico City during late 2015
and early 2016, I first began sketching thoughts on the topics found here
in Sydney in January 2015, having been refreshed by a post-PhD overseas
journey during which Stanley Cavell’s philosophical music first touched my
ears.2 I had submitted my doctoral thesis on Kant and Hegel in August 2013
and escaped Sydney from December of that year to August of the following.
During the trip I found the eight-month marking process for my thesis had
come to an end and that I would be required to make some minor amend-
ments to the text. Upon rewriting some bits and adding others I realised a
first reading of The Claim of Reason had permanently changed my sense of
the hopes and possible achievements of philosophy, and had opened up to me
fresh ways of conceiving of topics I had been at work on during my doctorate.
In addition to this, I would thank the reviewers of my thesis, Angelica Nuzzo,
Chris Yeomans, and Simon Lumsden, for their generous and helpful com-
ments; these also gave me guidance in reframing my thoughts. And, begin-
ning from a period which stretches even farther back, I cannot fail to mention
the splendid mentorship of Paul Redding of which I had the privilege: without
his support, insight, patience, and friendship, I would be in a much worse
position than I am, philosophically and otherwise.
The early sketches for the present work began with an eye on issues from
my doctorate that seemed worthy of further treatment in connection with one
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