Inventions of the imagination : Romanticism and beyond / editors, Richard T. Gray [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Richard T.

Series:

Robert B Heilman Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination (Philosophy)--History.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the diverse theories and assessments of the dialectic between reason and imagination in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics.

Contents:

Imagination on the move / Wolfgang Welsch

The poetics of nature: literature and constructive imagination in the history of geology / Georg Braungart

Between imagination and reason: Kant and Spinoza on fictions / Beth Lord

Herder on interpretation and imagination / Michael N. Forster

William Blake: imagination, vision, inspiration, intellect / Hazard Adams

Imaginative power as prerequisite for an aesthetics of freedom in Friedrich Schiller's works / Wilhelm Vosskamp

The gentle force over pictures: Hegel's philosophical conception of the imagination / Klaus Vieweg

The status of literature in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit: on the lives of concepts / Robert B. Pippin

Difficult freedom: Hegel's symbolic art and Schelling's historiography in The ages of the world / Tilottana Rajan

From art to history: Schelling's modern mythology and the coming community / Richard Block

"To impose is not to discover": a romantic-modernist continuity in contradiction / Christoph Bode.

Notes:

"A Robert B. Heilman Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295801650

0295801654

OCLC:

757509343