In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's
aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of …

1. For the French eighteenth century this work has been greatly influenced by the studies of
Robert Darnton and Roger Chartier, Carla Hesse, Keith Baker, Dena Goodman, and Antoine …

Hegel's arguments has been a commitment to explaining both art's internal dynamic and its
development in terms of determinately nonaesthetic factors. l In this essay, I argue against …

Schiller to Derrida is a historical critique of literary theory in the eighteenth, nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Starting with the work of Kant and Schiller, it traces an idealist tradition …

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry
Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in …

This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in
particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the …

In the eighteenth century we see the rise of modern aesthetics as a distinct philosophical
disci-pline in a wide range of writers such as Addison, Dubos, and Baumgarten. By focusing …

So, the question remains: why did Pater confuse things by eliminating the very passages
that, in" Poems by William Morris/'made his position quite clear? Perhaps it was careless …

ESTHETIC THEORY of the eighteenth century had little difficulty accommodating art and
nature to a distinction that we find hard to draw. One kind of experience, one kind of object …

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard
accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by …