Fleck - Das Bild der Selbsttätigkeit um 1800
The author explores the relationship between inkblot and image in early 19th-century thought. In the German Romantic period fantasy was considered a particularly important capability. According to Immanuel Kant the imagination is characterised by its autonomy with respect to rational functions and willpower. This sort of autonomy he called self-activity.In the generations that followed the concept of self-activity was employed ...