The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism

reconstructing german idealism and romanticism : historicism and presentism

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

Coleridge on dreaming: romanticism, dreams, and the medical imagination

deconstruction demonstrate his fundamental law or affect Maxwell's account of electromagnetic induction? These are small potatoes, however, when you consider that "electrical experiments could mold politics as much as politics did electricity." Do not think that the meaning of this equality is that neither affected the other. No sirree. "Replacing the Newtonian philosophy with the electrical th...

the transition from ethics to religion in german idealism

the relationship between ethics and religion, which can be an issue in all the history of philosophy and philosophy in all systems studied. but the discussion of kant practical reason and its separation as a theoretical sense and followed by discussion of metaphysical and theological ethics and religion to the realm of practical reason bring about other effects found. although kant denies all a...

Schopenhauer’s Contraction of Reason: Clarifying Kant and Undoing German Idealism

Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...

German idealism and the development of psychology in the nineteenth century.