Zeitsprünge. Studies in Early Modern History, Culture and Science

Against the backdrop of contemporary debates over the creative potential and embodiment of cognitive processes, imagination, a concept that traditionally mediates between perception and thought, has acquired particular topicality. But whereas the positive role of imagination as productive faculty and agency of knowledge has often been underlined in previous theoretical approaches, concomitant practical and ethical problems, traceable in the longue durée of the critique of imagination, remain largely unilluminated. The present volume addresses these problems and explores the reciprocal relationship between the productive excesses and disciplining exercises of the imagination from the Middle Ages to the present day across art history and theory, history of ideas, literary studies and philosophy. This collection of essays demonstrates that the demarcation between the legitimately imaginable and the unimaginable is not confined to private cognitive and meditative practice. Rather, it encompasses rituals, rhetorical techniques, multiple forms of knowledge, artistic production and reception, and, not least, configurations of public and political space.

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»Praktiken der Imagination – Practices of Imagination«
Herausgegeben von Hana Gründler, Giulia Baldelli und Jakob Moser
 

Hana Gründler, Jakob Moser: Practices of Imagination. An Introduction

Ravinder Binning: Desert Phantasia: Practices of Imagination in Early Egyptian Monasticism

Katharine Stahlbuhk: »[A]d modum Sompnii Scipionis«. Il sogno raccontato come strumento letterario di divulgazione politico-religiosa nel Quattrocento

Fausto Fraisopi: Imagination as Anthropological Topic. Imaginary Worlds and Utopian Languages from Renaissance to Descartes (and Leibniz)

Giulia Baldelli: Jakob Böhmes Textproduktion als imaginative Schreib- und Lektürepraxis

Elisabeth Flucher: Eingebildete Krankheit – Krankheit der Einbildungskraft: Zur Diskursgeschichte der Hypochondrie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Giovanna Targia: Das Spiel der Einbildungskraft bei Edgar Wind

Hana Gründler: Politics of Imagination? ›Leonardo‹ in Czech Art and Literature after 1945

Christoph Paret: Erhebende Einbildungskraft. Jacques Rancière über die deterritorialisierende Wirkung der Landschaft als Bild

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Andreas Mahler: Komplementäre Interpunktion. Zur Emergenz von Doppelgeschichten in der Frühen Neuzeit

Valentina Finger: »As Brittle as the Glory.« Imperial Mirrors and Their Inversions in Richard II

Christian Reidenbach: Eine Gesellschaft des Staunens. Zuschaueraffekte im Theater Pierre Corneilles

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner: Beredte Armaturen. Tropen der Männlichkeit im Orlando Furioso und ihr Nachleben im Don Quijote

Jakob Moser: Bookish Demons: Scriptural Temptations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iconography of St. Anthony

Sergius Kodera: Im Netzwerk rhetorischer Sympathien: Daniel Schwenters ›steganologischer‹ Telegraph

Robert Felfe: Ernst Kris und »Der Stil Rustique«

Victoria von Flemming und Christian Wobbeler: Die junge Frau und der Tod – Deutungen eines Vanitas-Motivs in bildender und darstellender Kunst der Gegenwart