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Book SynopsisExplores the diverse theories and assessments of the dialectic between reason and imagination in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics
Trade Review"The essays in this volume are clearly written and stimulating, jargon-free despite the sometimes complex material, and the volume has made the transition from a collection of conference papers to a set of polished essays in an exemplary way."
-- John Guthrie * Modern Language Review *
"This is a stimulating collection of papers, foregrounding the role of the imagination at a time when its lack can be almost palpably felt across the educational curriculum and in the political arena."
-- Paul Bishop * Journal of European Studies *
"The collection as a whole provides ample material for thinking about the epistemic role of the imagination. . . . [I]t makes an important contribution not only to the history of philosophy and the study of romanticism, but also to contemporary questions in hermeneutics, theories of knowledge and aesthetics."
-- Dalia Nassar * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Richard T. Gray
1. Imagination on the Move / Wolfgang Welsch
2. The Poetics of Nature: Literature and Constructive Imagination in the History of Geology / Georg Braungart
3. Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions / Beth Lord
4. Herder on Interpretation and Imagination / Michael N. Forster
5. William Blake: Imagination, Vision, Inspiration, Intellect / Hazard Adams
6. Imaginative Power as Prerequisite for an Aesthetics of Freedom in Friedrich Schiller’s Works / Wilhelm Voskamp
7. The Gentle Force over Pictures: Hegel’s Philosophical Conception of the Imagination / Klaus Vieweg
8. The Status of Literature in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: On the Lives of Concepts / Robert B. Pippin
9. Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of the World (1815) / Tilottama Rajan
10. From Art to History: Schelling’s Modern Mythology and the Coming Community / Richard Block
11. “To impose is not to discover”: A Romantic-Modernist Continuity in Contradiction / Christoph Bode
Biographies of Editors and Contributors
Index
