Inventions of the Imagination
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Inventions of the Imagination

Romanticism and Beyond

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Inventions of the Imagination

Romanticism and Beyond

About this book

The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics. By the end of the eighteenth century, reason as the predominant human faculty had run its course, and imagination emerged as another force whose contributions to human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a universal form of reason alongside a plurality of imaginative capacities describes the ideological program of modernism from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. This collection chronicles some of the vicissitudes in the conceptualization and evaluation of the imagination across time and in various disciplines.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 IMAGINATION ON THE MOVE
  5. 2 THE POETICS OF NATURE: LITERATURE AND CONSTRUCTIVE IMAGINATION IN THE HISTORY OF GEOLOGY
  6. 3 BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND REASON: KANT AND SPINOZA ON FICTIONS
  7. 4 HERDER ON INTERPRETATION AND IMAGINATION
  8. 5 WILLIAM BLAKE: IMAGINATION, VISION, INSPIRATION, INTELLECT
  9. 6 IMAGINATIVE POWER AS PREREQUISITE FOR AN AESTHETICS OF FREEDOM IN FRIEDRICH SCHILLER'S WORKS
  10. 7 THE GENTLE FORCE OVER PICTURES: HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTION OF THE IMAGINATION
  11. 8 THE STATUS OF LITERATURE IN HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT: ON THE LIVES OF CONCEPTS
  12. 9 DIFFICULT FREEDOM: HEGEL'S SYMBOLIC ART AND SCHELLING'S HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE AGES OF THE WORLD (1815)
  13. 10 FROM ART TO HISTORY: SCHELLING'S MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND THE COMING COMMUNITY
  14. 11 "TO IMPOSE IS NOT TO DISCOVER": A ROMANTIC-MODERNIST CONTINUITY IN CONTRADICTION
  15. Biographies of Editors and Contributors
  16. Index