Inventions of the Imagination

Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood professor of Germanics at the University of Washington. Nicholas Halmi is University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period at the University College, Oxford. Gary J. Handwerk is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington. Michael A. Rosenthal is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Klaus Vieweg is professor of philosophy at Friedrich Shiller University.

"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)

• Introduction / Richard T. Gray1. Imagination on the Move / Wolfgang Welsch2. The Poetics of Nature: Literature and Constructive Imagination in the History of Geology / Georg Braungart3. Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions / Beth Lord4. Herder on Interpretation and Imagination / Michael N. Forster5. William Blake: Imagination, Vision, Inspiration, Intellect / Hazard Adams6. Imaginative Power as Prerequisite for an Aesthetics of Freedom in Friedrich Schiller's Works / Wilhelm Voskamp7. The Gentle Force over Pictures: Hegel's Philosophical Conception of the Imagination / Klaus Vieweg8. The Status of Literature in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: On the Lives of Concepts / Robert B. Pippin9. Difficult Freedom: Hegel's Symbolic Art and Schelling's Historiography in The Ages of the World (1815) / Tilottama Rajan10. From Art to History: Schelling's Modern Mythology and the Coming Community / Richard Block11. "To impose is not to discover": A Romantic-Modernist Continuity in Contradiction / Christoph BodeBiographies of Editors and Contributors Index