The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in
Romantic and post-Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and
art. "Inventions of the Imagination, Romanticism and Beyond"
explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in
a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural
critics.
By the end of the eighteenth century, an insistence on reason as
the predominant human faculty had run its course, and the
imagination began to emerge as another force whose contributions to
human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly
calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a
universal form of reason alongside a plurality of imaginative
capacities describes the ideological program of modernism from the
end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Are these two
drives actually compatible with one another? Can a universal and
monolithic form of reason tolerate the play, flexibility, and
unpredictability of imaginative creativity? This collection
chronicles some of the vicissitudes in the conceptualization and
evaluation of the imagination across time and in a variety of
intellectual disciplines, including philosophy, aesthetic theory,
and literary studies.
These essays analyze the work of a range of predominately German
and British philosophers and poets, including Kant, Hegel,
Schiller, Blake, Keats, and Goethe. Together they create a rich and
nuanced dialogue on the roles literature, fictions, and works of
art in general-understood as products of the imagination-play for
and in philosophical systems.
Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood professor
of Germanics at the University of Washington. Nicholas Halmi is
University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period at
the University College, Oxford. Gary J. Handwerk is professor of
English and comparative literature at the University of Washington.
Michael A. Rosenthal is associate professor of philosophy at the
University of Washington. Klaus Vieweg is professor of philosophy
at Friedrich Shiller University.
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