Marx’s choice of Vorstellung distinguished his social imagination from Kant’s individualist one

Evidence

In the original text, this social-­collective framing of the imagination is indicated by the use of the word Vorstellung rather than Einbildungskraft, which is used by Kant and thus carries an (undesired by Marx) association with the individualist and idealist philosophical traditions. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 626

Categorization

• DEFINE: A precise terminological distinction: Vorstellung (social-collective imagination) vs. Einbildungskraft (Kant’s individualist faculty).
• XREF: Very relevant to the book’s core argument about collective imagination in finance — Marx’s terminology sharpens the theoretical grounding. — connects to: Marx chose Vorstellung to mark imagination as social rather than individual; Marx saw workers’ alienation as rooted in imagination’s ideological capture — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 219

Broader Connections

• Marx chose Vorstellung to mark imagination as social rather than individual #corroborates (0.97)
• Marx saw workers’ alienation as rooted in imagination’s ideological capture #corroborates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 219