Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (2012), co-editor of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), and Phenomenological Ethics (A Special Issue of Santalka: Filosofija, 17/3, 2009). Dmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of a number of books including Matter, Imagination and Geometry (2002), On Dialogue (2006), Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), Comedy, Seriously (2014), and The Concept of History (2017).

• Editors’ Introduction / 1. What is Productive Imagination? Dmitri Nikulin / 2. Productive and Practical Imagination: What Does Productive Imagination Produce? Alfredo Ferrarin / 3. Fantasy as Productive Imagination According to Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis or the Creativity of What is Human, Laura S. Carugati / 4. The Productive Imagination in Hegel and Classical German Philosophy, Angelica Nuzzo / 5. Dilthey’s Typifying Imagination, Rudolf A. Makkreel / 6. Imagination of Stupidity: Jules de Gaultier, Flaubert and Le Bovarysme, Nicolas de Warren / 7. Productive Imagination and the Cassirer-Heidegger Disputation, Saulius Geniusas / 8. The Deeper Significance of Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Productive Imagination: The Role of Figuration, George H. Taylor / Index

This welcome volume explores the conceptual history of productive imagination by focusing on the development of the concept from its prefiguration in antiquity to its modern articulation in and after Kant. Special attention is paid to the romantic, phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions, with the main reference authors being F. Schlegel, Novalis, Dilthey and Ricoeur, as well as Cassirer and Heidegger.