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Abstract
The thesis examines how Kant, Derrida and Blanchot commonly investigate the epistemic limits attributable to the faculty of imagination, the comprehensibility of the notion of subjective singularity and the form necessarily taken by representations of temporality as associated concerns. Kants understanding of the rational approach to synthetic a priori truth as an indefinitely conducted decomposing synthesis, Derridas understanding of written truth as inherently soliciting deconstruction and Blanchots understanding of truth in fictive oeuvres as instigating dsuvrement are explored as similar approaches to the relations between imagination, identity and narrative. To elucidate this comparison the thesis addresses: 1.) Kants definition of the epistemological function of the faculty of imagination, 2.) how imagination so defined informs judgments of singularity, 3.) how such judgments schematize knowledge as bearing an irreducibly narrative dimension and 4.) how literature and philosophy act as formally divergent yet materially co-implicating means of relating objective truth to subjective insight.