Mind's world : imagination and subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism /
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Seattle, WA :
University of Washington Press,
2009
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| Series: | Literary conjugations.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric : contexts of imagination
- Aristotle, Phantasia, and the problem of epistemology
- Plato, the neoplatonists, and the vagaries of the sublunar world
- Phantasia and ecstatic knowledge
- "A more skillful artist than imitation"
- Dreams, doubts, and evil demons : Descartes and imagination
- Meditatio prima : certainty, the Cogito, and imagination
- Imagination in the rules
- Meditatio secunda : the world of the Cogito
- Descartes, Montaigne, and Pascal
- Analogies and enthusiasm
- Excogitations : fabulating the Cogito
- The reasonable imagination : Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy
- Imagination in the limits of pure reason
- Dreamers and madmen : imagination in Anthropology
- Natural art and sublime madness : imagination in the Critique of judgment
- The highest point of philosophy : Fichte's reimagining of the kantian system
- The logics of positing : intellectual and the absolute subject
- Ecstasy, inspired communication, and philosophical genius
- Light, dusk, and darkness : the reconciliation of opposites
- The metaphysics of oscillation and the truth of imagination
- Reason fixations : arresting imagination
- A system without foundations : poetic subjectivity in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Ordo inversus
- A system without foundations
- Fantasy and the body
- Divine law and abject subjectivity : Coleridge and the double knowledge of imagination
- Divine imagination
- The abyss of the empirical self
- Coda: Imagining ideology.
