...Schelling. As in Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism (cf. 1.4), Coleridge considered imagination "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM" (7.1: 304); significantly, Coleridge substitutes his infinite "I AM" for Schelling's "Absolute"...

...1817: "The primary Imagination [is] the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and [is] a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." (Jaspers, "Living Powers," 217). As the "central point" of his argument Jasper then maintains...

...gradually secularising transition of creation from God to Man, producing, in Coleridge's conception, 'a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation' (Coleridge, 1910: 159). In this sense, artistic creativity was an intense reaction to the modern disenchantment...

...living power and prime <7' Ebd. r4 AoT.S. 86 agent of all human perception, and äs a repition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM."rs Die sekundäre Imagination übertrifft die primäre vor allem im Grade ihrer Ausprägung: sie...

...Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition of the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will,...

...nature of perception had considerable influence on nineteenth-century literary and religious thought. The imagination then I consider either as primary,...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still...

...modifying power' (160). This helps us to understand Coleridge's notorious definition of imagination: The imagination then I consider either as primary,...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still...

...in full: "The imagination then I consider as either primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination 1 hold to be the living power and prime agent of all...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will,...

...itself objectively to itself is the work of what he calls the 'primary IMAGINATION,' which he defines as 'the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception,...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM' (BL 1:304). It is the act of perception itself viewed as a creative act, which repeats as a human...

...Historisches Wdrterhuch der Philosophic, 1971, vol. 4, p. 219. In Coleridge's opinion, primary imagination is the 'living power and prime agent of all human perception,...mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am'; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 1817, vol. 1, pp. 295-6. Coleridge was substantially a Kantian...