Eliakim Ferreira Oliveira

The problem we focus on in this dissertation concerns the examination of imagination in the constitution of knowledge and aesthetic experience. The question that guides us can be formulated as follows: in Kant’s thought, what conditions allow imagination to be invoked both to understanding cognition and to understanding aesthetic contemplation? The problem that arises from this question is that of the role of imagination in the schematization of pure concepts of understanding, as in the Critique of Pure Reason, and what should be understood by a “schematization without concepts”, such as that on which aesthetic reflection depends, in the Critique of Judgment. From this problem derive the subproblems of what schematism itself is, the relationship between schematism and the synthesis of imagination and, finally, the subproblem of the identity between schematism in its cognitive expression and schematism in its aesthetic expression. In each of the five chapters that make up this dissertation, an answer to each of these problems will be developed, taken as layers to deepen the answer to that general question about imagination.