Immaginazione, schematismo e prestazione estetica. Linee di ricerca in Italia tra filosofia e neuroscienze
The article offers a first survey on the studies concerning imagination in an aesthetic and
cognitive perspective in Italy in the last two decades. From the aesthetic point of view, the
research is focused in particular on reconsidering the imaginative function of organizing the
sensible matter of perception, thus making it available to the subject’s experience – it is the
process Kant called “schematism”. The recent aesthetic studies in Italy make new forms of
schematism emerge, from the “free schematism” (Garroni), inspired by Kant’s aesthetic