In Short: Derrida vs Kant on Imagination

Theme	Kant	Derrida
Function	Synthetic, mediating, transcendental	Excessive, disruptive, supplementary
Role	Conditions of possibility of experience	Conditions of impossibility of full presence
Relation to presence	Subordinate to presence and concept	Displaces presence, introduces absence
Sublime	Reaffirms moral reason	Shows irreducible rupture
Memory & Archive	Mostly internal (transcendental)	External, technicized, haunted
Stability	Structured by schemata	Fractured by trace and différance