Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

Helmut Hühn; James Vigus

ISBN 10: 1907625046 / ISBN 13: 9781907625046

Published by Legenda & Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, London, 2013

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Hardcover, xiii + 214 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show shelfworn marks, short creases along the spine, a small, cosmetic & closed puncture on rear spine (not affecting binding). Published without a dust jacket. -- That a symbolic object or work of art participates in what it signifies, as a part within a whole, was a controversial claim discussed with particular intensity in the wake of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. It informed the aesthetic theories of a constellation of writers in Jena and Weimar around 1800, including Moritz, Goethe, Schelling and Hegel. Yet the twin concepts of symbol and intuition were not only tools of literary and mythological criticism: they were integral even to questions of epistemology and methodology in the fields of theology, metaphysics, history and natural philosophy. The international contributors to this volume further explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Contemporary debates about the claims of symbolic as opposed to allegorical art are kept in view throughout. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Kant's transformation of the symbol-concept / Stephan Meier-Oeser; 2. 'Mere Nature in the Subject': Kant on symbolic representation of the Absolute / Jane Kneller; 3. 'Neither mere allegories nor mere history': Multi-layered symbolism in Moritz's Andreas Hartknopf / Jutta Heinz; 4. Comparative morphology and symbolic mediation in Goethe / Helmut Hühn; 5. Friedrich Schlegel's symbol-concept / Jan Urbich; 6. Bread, wine and water: Hegel's distinction between mystical and symbolical in The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate / Cecilia Muratori; 7. 'All are but parts of one stupendous whole'? Henry Crabb Robinson's dilemma / James Vigus; 8. The spark of intuitive reason: Coleridge's 'On the Prometheus of Aeschylus' / James Vigus; 9. Emerson's exegesis: transcending symbols / Jeffrey Einboden; 10. Pointing at hidden things: intuition and creativity / Temilo van Zantwijk; 11. Aesthetic cognition and aesthetic judgment / Gottfried Gabriel; Afterword / Nicholas Halmi; Bibliography; Index. Seller Inventory # 004999

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Title: Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in...

Publisher: Legenda & Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, London

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

About the Author:

James Vigus is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena (Germany). His other publications include Coleridge’s Afterlives, ed. by James Vigus and Jane Wright (Palgrave, 2008); he is Reviews Editor of the Coleridge Bulletin.