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  • Phantasie from Einbildungskraft in ways useful for understanding Shelley and her difference from other English romantic writers: less in the philosophical sense of the faculty of imagining

    Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008

  • (Einbildungskraft) than in the sense of the world of the imagination, its contents and the creative activity which animates it (Laplanche and Pontalis 314).

    Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008

  • (Wissenschaftslehre), Humboldt advanced a theory of the imagination (Einbildungskraft) that enabled him to explain aesthetic effects as an interactive process involving the triad of artist, work of art and recipient.

    Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007

  • Kant's spe - cific discussions of imagination (Einbildungskraft) occur in fairly narrow epistemological contexts and he never uses a phrase corresponding to “metaphysical imagination.”

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • German criticism also hammered out the distinction between fancy (Einbildungskraft) and imagination

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • Dreiser, in fact, allowed his scorn to make off with his taste -- and _es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • How excellently the German _Einbildungskraft_ expresses this prime and loftiest faculty, the power of coadunation, the faculty that forms the many into one -- _Ineins-bildung_!

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • Einbildungskraft und Aufklärung: Perspektiven der Philosophie, Anthropologie und

    18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

  • Emil Staiger's preface to Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters

    LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

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