Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Notes on the Contributors
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Kant’s Transformation of the Symbol-Concept
  5. 2 ‘Mere Nature in the Subject’: Kant on Symbolic Representation of the Absolute
  6. 3 ‘Neither mere allegories nor mere history’: Multi-layered Symbolism in Moritz’s Andreas Hartknopf
  7. 4 Comparative Morphology and Symbolic Mediation in Goethe
  8. 5 Friedrich Schlegel’s Symbol-Concept
  9. 6 Bread, Wine and Water: Hegel’s Distinction between Mystical and Symbolical in The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate
  10. 7 ‘All are but parts of one stupendous whole’? Henry Crabb Robinson’s Dilemma
  11. 8 The Spark of Intuitive Reason: Coleridge’s ‘On the Prometheus of Aeschylus’
  12. 9 Emerson’s Exegesis: Transcending Symbols
  13. 10 Pointing at Hidden Things: Intuition and Creativity
  14. 11 Aesthetic Cognition and Aesthetic Judgment
  15. Afterword
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index