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Miki Kiyoshi's 'The Logic of Imagination' with John Krummel

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Apr 30, 2025
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ANECDOTE

John Krummel's Background Story

  • John Krummel grew up bilingual in Tokyo with a Japanese mother and English-teaching father.
  • His academic journey led him to study Heidegger, Nishida, and eventually translate Miki Kiyoshi's complex work.
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Imagination as World Builder

  • The "logic" of imagination refers to the structure by which imagination actively constructs our world.
  • Miki extends Kant and Heidegger's ideas by including social and embodied praxis in imagination's role.
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Imagination Precedes Reason

  • Imagination is more originary than reason because it acts as the faculty forming forms beyond conscious intellect.
  • Miki even sees imagination as operating biologically, preceding human intellect and forming nature itself.
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