Mind's world [Texte imprimé] : imagination and subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism / Alexander M. Schlutz

Bibliogr. p. 307-314

Introduction -- Epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric : contexts of imagination -- Aristotle, Phantasia, and the problem of epistemology -- Plato, the neoplatonists, and the vagaries of the sublunar world -- Phantasia and ecstatic knowledge -- "A more skillful artist than imitation" -- Dreams, doubts, and evil demons : Descartes and imagination -- Meditatio prima : certainty, the Cogito, and imagination -- Imagination in the rules -- Meditatio secunda : the world of the Cogito -- Descartes, Montaigne, and Pascal -- Analogies and enthusiasm -- Excogitations : fabulating the Cogito -- The reasonable imagination : Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy -- Imagination in the limits of pure reason -- Dreamers and madmen : imagination in Anthropology -- Natural art and sublime madness : imagination in the Critique of judgment -- The highest point of philosophy : Fichte's reimagining of the kantian system -- The logics of positing : intellectual and the absolute subject -- Ecstasy, inspired communication, and philosophical genius -- Light, dusk, and darkness : the reconciliation of opposites -- The metaphysics of oscillation and the truth of imagination -- Reason fixations : arresting imagination -- A system without foundations : poetic subjectivity in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Ordo inversus -- A system without foundations -- Fantasy and the body -- Divine law and abject subjectivity : Coleridge and the double knowledge of imagination -- Divine imagination -- The abyss of the empirical self -- Coda: Imagining ideology