Imaging Objects: Kant, Turner, and Phillip on Personhood #1011830

This excerpt is part of the volume Visual Narratives, Aesthetics and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the ‘Other’. Vol. 1 – Decolonial Aesthetics, Ontologies and Epistemologies, edited by Tomás Cajueiro and Estevão Bosco, published by Ventura Edizioni.



Deciding which idealism best describes Kant’s has been— and still is— a necessary debate because it defines how objects affect us and the role our judgment plays in making sense of the world. Is the character of the world we view, shaped through our cognitive faculties and separated in an independent world? Or is it unable to be represented within empirical reality, which is made intelligible through understanding what it is not?