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Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.
List of contents
Introduction to the significances of the imagination in Kant, idealism, and romanticism Gerad Gentry; Part I. Kant and the Imagination: 1. Kant on the role of the imagination (and images) in the transition from intuition to experience Clinton Tolley; 2. Kant on imagination and the intuition of time Tobias Rosefeldt; 3. 'The faculty of intuitions A Priori'. Kant on the productive power of the imagination Günter Zöller; 4. Unity in variety: theoretical, practical and aesthetic reason in Kant Keren Gorodeisky; Part II. The Imagination in Post-Kantian German Idealism: 5. Imagination and objectivity in Fichte's early Wissenschaftslehre Johannes Haag; 6. The Kantian roots of Hegel's theory of the imagination Meghant Sudan; 7. The ground of Hegel's logic of life and the unity of reason: free lawfulness of the imagination Gerad Gentry; Part III. The Imagination in German Romanticism: 8. Imagination and interpretation: Herder's concept of Einfühlung Michael N. Forster; 9. Imagination, divination, and understanding: Schleiermacher and the hermeneutics of the second person Kristin Gjesdal; 10. Poetry and imagination in Fichte and the early German romantics: a re-assessment Elizabeth Millán Brusslan; 11. Art, imagination and the interpretation of the age: Hegel and Schlegel on the new status of art and its connection to religion and philosophy Allen Speight.
Summary
Brings together for the first time critical reflections on the significances of the imagination in German idealism and early German romanticism. The book sheds light on this important and enigmatic notion's role in the context of philosophical attempts to provide a holistic account of reason, agency, and the material world.
