Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-period Aesthetics (Legenda Main)

'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.' Kant's Transformation Of The Symbol-concept / Stephan Meier-oeser -- 'mere Nature In The Subject' : Kant On Symbolic Representation Of The Absolute / Jane Kneller -- 'neither Mere Allegories Nor Mere History' : Multi-layered Symbolism In Moritz's Andreas Hartknopf / Jutta Heinz -- Comparative Morphology And Symbolic Mediation In Goethe / Helmut Heinz -- Friedrich Schlegel's Symbol-concept / Jan Urbich -- Bread, Wine And Water : Hegel's Distinction Between Mystical And Symbolical In The Spirit Of Christianity And Its Fate / Cecilia Muratori -- 'all Are But Parts Of One Stupendous Whole'? : Henry Crabb Robinson's Dilemma / James Vigus -- Emerson's Exegesis : Transcending Symbols / Jeffrey Einboden -- Pointing At Hidden Things : Intuition And Creativity / Temilo Van Zantwijk -- Aesthetic Cognition And Aesthetic Judgment / Gottfried Gabriel. Edited By Helmut Hühn And James Vigus. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.