# Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining, and the Draw of the Real **Opening (not a real abstract):** ¹ Is this imagination or memory? Well, given the kind of memory involved, my answer of course is: Both. See Chapter 6, esp. note 26. ² ‘But if the question is whether something is beautiful, one does not want to know whether there is anything that is or that could be at stake, for us or for someone else, in the existence of the thing, but rather how we judge it in mere contemplation (intuition or reflection) . . . One only wants to know whether the mere representation of the object is accompanied with satisfaction in me, however indifferent I might be with regard to the existence of the object of this representation.’ Kant 2000 (1790), §2. ³ For a sense of how this proposal looks from the perspective of the theory developed in this book, see [4.2]. **Authors:** [[Robert Hopkins]]