The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism

Gerad Gentry is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at Lewis University and Associate Visiting Research Faculty in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of the forthcoming volume Kantian Legacies in German Idealism. Konstantin Pollok is Professor of Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His book Kant's Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of Reason (Cambridge, 2017) won the 2018 North American Kant Society Book Prize for Senior Scholars.

• Introduction to the significances of the imagination in Kant, idealism, and romanticism Gerad Gentry; Part I. Kant and the Imagination: 1. Kant on the role of the imagination (and images) in the transition from intuition to experience Clinton Tolley; 2. Kant on imagination and the intuition of time Tobias Rosefeldt; 3. 'The faculty of intuitions A Priori'. Kant on the productive power of the imagination Günter Zöller; 4. Unity in variety: theoretical, practical and aesthetic reason in Kant Keren Gorodeisky; Part II. The Imagination in Post-Kantian German Idealism: 5. Imagination and objectivity in Fichte's early Wissenschaftslehre Johannes Haag; 6. The Kantian roots of Hegel's theory of the imagination Meghant Sudan; 7. The ground of Hegel's logic of life and the unity of reason: free lawfulness of the imagination Gerad Gentry; Part III. The Imagination in German Romanticism: 8. Imagination and interpretation: Herder's concept of Einfühlung Michael N. Forster; 9. Imagination, divination, and understanding: Schleiermacher and the hermeneutics of the second person Kristin Gjesdal; 10. Poetry and imagination in Fichte and the early German romantics: a re-assessment Elizabeth Millán Brusslan; 11. Art, imagination and the interpretation of the age: Hegel and Schlegel on the new status of art and its connection to religion and philosophy Allen Speight.

'a timely collection for specialists, one that should be of interest to anyone working on Kant or German Idealism and Romanticism.' Jessica Williams, Journal of the History of Philosophy