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

ISBN-13: 9781907625046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str.

Huehn, Helmut

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Kant's Transformation of the Symbol-Concept 2. Mere Nature in the Subject': Kant on Symbolic Representation of the Absolute 3. Neither mere allegories nor mere history': Multi-layered Symbolism in Moritz's Andreas Hartknopf 4. Comparative Morphology and Symbolic Mediation in Goethe 5. Friedrich Schlegel's Symbol-Concept 6. Bread, Wine and Water: Hegel's Distinction between Mystical and Symbolical in the Spirit of Christianity and its Fate 7. All are but parts of one stupendous whole'? Henry Crabb Robinson's Dilemma 8. The Spark of Intuitive Reason: Coleridge's 'On the Prometheus of Aeschylus' 9. Emerson's Exegesis: Transcending Symbols 10. Pointing at Hidden Things: Intuition and Creativity 11. Aesthetic Cognition and Aesthetic Judgment 12. Afterword

O autorze

Helmut Huehn