3. Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: On Plot and the One-by-One 1
5. Part I: Poetry: Necessity and Plot in Aristotle and Eighteenth-Century German Criticism
6. 1. Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions 17
7. 2. Contingency, Connection, and Possible Worlds: History and Poetry in Gottsched’s Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst 38
8. Part II: History: Aesthetic Connection in Historical Knowledge and Historical Composition
9. 3. Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier 61
10. 4. “On the Wings of Imagination”: Wholeness and Spontaneity in Kant’s Philosophy of Universal History 78
11. 5. Not Benjamin’s Ranke: On the Aesthetics of Historicism 98
12. Part III: Epochality: On Phenomenology’s Appeals to a Disconnected Past
13. 6. Heidegger and the Plot of Metaphysics 119
14. 7. Arendt’s Epochal Phenomenology: History and the New 135
15. 8. Speaking for the Past: On Begriffsgeschichte and the Language of Other Epochs 153
16. Conclusion: Wholeness and its Sabotage 170
17. Bibliography 175
18. Index 194