Receptive Spirit - German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission

This book elucidates the ways in which German Idealist authors such as Kant, Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel and Hegel envisioned the conjunction of spontaneous activity and receptivity towards culturally transmitted models in the context of aesthetic experience, philosophical thought, textual communication and literary criticism.

About the author

Márton Dornbach is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Stanford University.

Summary

This book elucidates the ways in which German Idealist authors such as Kant, Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel and Hegel envisioned the conjunction of spontaneous activity and receptivity towards culturally transmitted models in the context of aesthetic experience, philosophical thought, textual communication and literary criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Marton Dornbach, Márton Dornbach, Mßrton Dornbach
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780823268290
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6829-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies