Table of Contents

Introduction: Kant and the power of imagination; 1. Kant and Romanticism; 2. The power of imaginative freedom; 3. The interest of disinterest; 4. Aesthetic reflection and the primacy of the practical; 5. The failure of Kant's imagination; 6. Imaginative reflections of the self in Hölderlin and Novalis; 7. Novalis' Kantianism and Kant's Romanticism.

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An exploration of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and his philosophical enterprise.

About the Author

Jane Kneller is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University. She is editor and translator of Novalis: Fichte Studies (2003) in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.