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1 online resource (x, 320 pages) |
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Literary conjugations |
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Literary conjugations.
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Introduction -- Epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric : contexts of imagination -- Aristotle, Phantasia, and the problem of epistemology -- Plato, the neoplatonists, and the vagaries of the sublunar world -- Phantasia and ecstatic knowledge -- "A more skillful artist than imitation" -- Dreams, doubts, and evil demons : Descartes and imagination -- Meditatio prima : certainty, the Cogito, and imagination -- Imagination in the rules -- Meditatio secunda : the world of the Cogito -- Descartes, Montaigne, and Pascal -- Analogies and enthusiasm -- Excogitations : fabulating the Cogito -- The reasonable imagination : Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy -- Imagination in the limits of pure reason -- Dreamers and madmen : imagination in Anthropology -- Natural art and sublime madness : imagination in the Critique of judgment -- The highest point of philosophy : Fichte's reimagining of the kantian system -- The logics of positing : intellectual and the absolute subject -- Ecstasy, inspired communication, and philosophical genius -- Light, dusk, and darkness : the reconciliation of opposites -- The metaphysics of oscillation and the truth of imagination -- Reason fixations : arresting imagination -- A system without foundations : poetic subjectivity in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Ordo inversus -- A system without foundations -- Fantasy and the body -- Divine law and abject subjectivity : Coleridge and the double knowledge of imagination -- Divine imagination -- The abyss of the empirical self -- Coda: Imagining ideology |
| Summary |
Annotation Imagination 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. It has been construed as both essential to rational thought and as a dangerous impediment to it. Alexander Schult demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Philosophy of mind.
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Imagination.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Imagination
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Philosophy of mind
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Imagination
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Philosophie
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Verbeelding.
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Subjectiviteit.
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Filosofie van de geest.
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Medvetandefilosofi.
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Fantasi.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021694631 |
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9780295990361 |
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0295990368 |
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0295988924 |
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9780295988924 |
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