Deleuze`s Explanation on Kantian Acts of Imagination with a Regard to Three Syntheses in Difference and Repetition

Afarin, Farideh

doi:10.22096/ek.2020.115641.1177

Deleuze`s Explanation on Kantian Acts of Imagination with a Regard to Three Syntheses in Difference and Repetition

Document Type : Research Article

Author

Farideh Afarin

Assistant Professor, Department of Art Research, Faculty of Art, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

10.22096/ek.2020.115641.1177

Abstract

The aim of this article is to clarify the acts of imagination based on Kant`s first and Third Critique with regard to his pre-critique work. We consider these acts with a concentration on formative power, synthesis, and schematism, the sublime and symbolism. With analytic content analysis, we claim that Deleuze focuses on Kantian acts of imagination and attributes them to the acts of beings in the world. In Kantian synthesis like apprehension, reproduction and recognition there is logical order which is not related to pure time. they make perception complete. But the sublime disrupts the synthesis. It changes the capacity and criteria of measurement of perception. Through the schema, there is a synthetic act between two heterogeneous series like conceptual and Spatio-temporal determinations, based on the rule of production of the images for concepts. Symbolism leads schematism to the dead-end of cognition. It changes the capacity of cognition. Deleuze's first temporal synthesis in Difference and Repetition is living present and to some extent corresponds to the Kantian synthesis of apprehension. The second synthesis, that is pure past corresponds to the schema.The instants of the genesis of pure time happen in the third Deleuzian temporal synthesis with two disruptions in accordance with the sublime and symbolism. Deleuze transfers Kant`s acts of imagination like formation, synthesis, schematism, production, and genesis to acts of beings in the world.

Keywords

Imagination

Synthesis

Schema

Production

Genesis

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