Contents
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
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
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
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
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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Guide
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
Start of Content
Bibliography
Index