Helmut Huehn - Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-period Aesthetics

SYMBOL AND INTUITION COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN KANTIAN AND ROMANTIC-PERIOD AESTHETICS

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Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

EDITED BY HELMUT HHN AND JAMES VIGUS

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This volume is related to the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within the research project Heuristics between Science and Poetry. The latter project formed a component of the Special Research Center 482 at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, entitled The Weimar-Jena Phenomenon: Culture around 1800. In a cross-disciplinary collaboration combining approaches from the humanities, cultural studies and natural sciences, the Special Research Center 482 explored the uniquely productive and intensive communication and interaction that took place in and between Weimar and Jena around 1800. The over-arching aim of the research was to examine the interrelation of Enlightenment, Classicism, Idealism and Romanticism.

For financial and infrastructural support we gratefully acknowledge the Special Research Centre and its spokesperson Prof. Olaf Breidbach. We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) for the provision of essential funding.

Special thanks to Dr Temilo van Zantwijk und Prof. Gottfried Gabriel for their collaboration and lively discussion.

Thanks also go to LMUexcellent for funding James Viguss postdoctoral research fellowship at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, from 200912, where much of his work for this volume was completed.

The specific idea for this book arose in the course of a graduate seminar on symbol-concepts from Kant to Hegel taught by Helmut Hhn at the philosophy department of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, in 2008. James Vigus was at that time a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) postdoctoral research fellow in Jena, whose research on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Henry Crabb Robinson as mediators of German thought intersected with the work undertaken in Dr Hhns seminar. As we discussed the desideratum to investigate a key selection from the extraordinary range of theories of symbol and intuition around 1800 an ambitious project intended to build on recent advances in scholarship on Kantian thought, Weimar Classicism, Jena Romanticism and German Idealism, to explore affinities and contrasts between Anglo-American and German writers, and to trace certain traditions of thinking about the symbol into modern approaches in which continental and analytic aesthetics intersect it became clear that the most appropriate method would be to commission a series of essays from scholars with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We thank all the contributors to this project: without them this book would not have been possible.

Thanks go to Kathleen Singles for translating , all from the German.

With regard to the production of this book, we are grateful to Graham Nelson for his very patient guidance throughout the whole process, to Richard Correll for editing the copy, and to Sue Dugen for compiling the index.