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.

• 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

"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."

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.

• 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

"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."

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.

• 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

"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."