The “Urbild” of “Einbildung”: The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics

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The “Urbild” of “Einbildung” : The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics. / Koch, Julian Johannes Immanuel.

In: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2021.

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Koch, JJI 2021, 'The “Urbild” of “Einbildung”: The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics', Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 82, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0033

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Koch, J. J. I. (2021). The “Urbild” of “Einbildung”: The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics. Journal of the History of Ideas, 82(4). https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0033

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Koch JJI. The “Urbild” of “Einbildung”: The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics. Journal of the History of Ideas. 2021;82(4). https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0033

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Koch, Julian Johannes Immanuel. / The “Urbild” of “Einbildung” : The Archetype in the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics. In: Journal of the History of Ideas. 2021 ; Vol. 82, No. 4.

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