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In the section (§ 49) of the Critique of Judgment which he entitles The faculties of the mind which constitute genius’, Kant writes that “The Imagination (as a productive faculty) is very powerful in creating another nature, as it were, out of the material that actual nature gives it.” What the Productive Imagination creates, he adds, “surpasses nature.”
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Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letter Twenty One, p. 102. (New Haven, 1954).
See Milton C. Nahm, The Artist as Creator, Chapter 2. (Baltimore, 1965.)
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 421.
William Duff, An Essay on Original Genius, p. 89. (London, 1767.)
Henry Home (Lord Kames), Elements of Criticism, pp. 518–19, 524. (Edinburgh, 1774.)
Alexander Gerard, An Essay on Genius, pp. 99. (London, 1774.)
Alexander Gerard, An Essay on Genius, pp. 77,237–38.
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Nahm, M.C. (1972). Imagination as the Productive Faculty for ‘Creating Another Nature…’. In: White Beck, L. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress. Synthese Historical Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3099-1_43
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