Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission

by Marton Dornbach

Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and spontaneous activity in the transmission of human-made models of mindedness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823268292
• ISBN13: 9780823268290
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"