The “Urbild” of “Einbildung”: The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics
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This article outlines what is arguably the uniquely German trajectory of the imagination, focusing on the relation between the imagination and “Urbild” in eighteenth-century German aesthetics, particularly in Kant and Schelling. I contend that shared German roots of the “Einbildung” (imagination) and “Urbild” (archetype) in “Bild” led German aesthetic thinkers to conceive of the imagination much more in (Neo-)Platonic terms. This article therefore argues that there is a perceptible rift in how the imagination is conceived in eighteenth-century discourse which follows a linguistic fault line between the Latin-origin “imagination” and the German “Einbildung.”
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of the History of Ideas |
Vol/bind | 82 |
Udgave nummer | 4 |
Antal sider | 24 |
ISSN | 0022-5037 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2021 |
ID: 317451776