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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
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(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
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(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
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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
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German criticism also hammered out the distinction between fancy (Einbildungskraft) and imagination
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968
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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
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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
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Einbildungskraft und Aufklärung: Perspektiven der Philosophie, Anthropologie und
18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007
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Emil Staiger's preface to Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters
LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968
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