{"product_id":"minds-world-9780295988931","title":"Minds World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. This title demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful and exciting book, one that will be of interest not just to scholars of Romanticism, but to all readers interested in the history of the concept of the imagination and the relationship of that history to philosophy, religion, and the process of secularization.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robert Mitchell * Studies in Romanticism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The clarity and precision with which \u003ci\u003eMind's World\u003c\/i\u003e addresses philosophical constructions of the imagination and their implications for theories of the subject make it an invaluable resource.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- David M. Baulch * Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Schlutz's book is a tour de force through some very difficult patches of intellectual history. Throughout he is as clear and surefooted as the subject matter permits. Recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the seminal studies of Western intellectual history to appear in the last decade, Schlutz's book moves through literature and philosophical texts in French, German, and English in a cross-linguistic and multi-disciplinary look at the roots of Romantic imagination and its paradoxes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Prism(s) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Rhetoric: Contexts of Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle, Phantasia, and the Problem of Epistemology \u003cbr\u003e Plato, the Neoplatonists, and the Vagaries of the Sublunar World\u003cbr\u003e Phantasia and Ecstatic Knowledge \u003cbr\u003e \"A More Skillful Artist than Imitation\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Dreams, Doubts, and Evil Demons: Descartes and Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Meditatio Prima: Certainty, the Cogito, and Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Imagination in the Rules\u003cbr\u003e Meditatio Secunda: The World of the Cogito\u003cbr\u003e Descartes, Montaigne, and Pascal \u003cbr\u003e Analogies and Enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003e Excogitations: Fabulating the Cogito\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Reasonable Imagination: Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Imagination in the Limits of Pure Reason \u003cbr\u003e Dreamers and Madmen: Imagination in Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e Natural Art and Sublime Madness: Imagination in the Critique of Judgment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Highest Point of Philosophy: Fichte's Reimagining of the Kantian System \u003cbr\u003e The Logics of Positing: Intellectual Intuition and the Absolute Subject \u003cbr\u003e Ecstasy, Inspired Communication, and Philosophical Genius \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLight, Dusk, and Darkness: The Reconciliation of Opposites\u003cbr\u003e The Metaphysics of Oscillation and the Truth of Imagination \u003cbr\u003e Reason's Fixations: Arresting Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A System without Foundations: Poetic Subjectivity in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Ordo Inversus\u003cbr\u003e A System without Foundations \u003cbr\u003e Fantasy and the Body \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Divine Law and Abject Subjectivity: Coleridge and the Double Knowledge of Imagination \u003cbr\u003e Divine Imagination \u003cbr\u003e The Abyss of the Empirical Self \u003cbr\u003e Coda: Imagining Ideology \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524698710359,"sku":"9780295988931","price":28.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295988931.jpg?v=1731857795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minds-world-9780295988931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}