Download or read book Reckoning with the Imagination written by Charles Altieri and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art.