Imaginatio. Knowing about Imaginative Visions. Theories of Mental Imagery in Medieval Philosophy and Theology (B03)

在中世纪灵魂理论的背景下，并考虑到拉丁语，希伯来语和阿拉伯语传统的纠缠，该研究项目将调查，神学概念化的Dei如何引发关于想象力（想象力）和精神形象状态的讨论。重点讨论了视觉的概念（即视觉的概念）。e.揭示的梦想，灵魂的旅程，预言的愿景）它涉及的基本矛盾，即启示的精神体验总是需要通过艺术或文学模式的描绘间接，精神外的确认。这种紧张关系对美学辩论以及关于比喻知识的认识论地位具有深远的影响。

Against the background of medieval theories of the soul and taking into consideration the entanglement of Latin, Hebrew and Arabic traditions, the research project is going to investigate, how theological conceptualizations of a visio Dei provoke discussions about the imaginative faculty (imaginatio) and the state of mental images. Focussing on concepts of imagina-tive visions (i. e. revealed dreams, journeys of the soul, prophetic visions) it deals with the fundamental paradox, that the spiritual experience of a revelation always requires an indirect, extramental confirmation through artistic or literary modes of depiction. This tension has far reaching implications for aesthetic debates as well as concerning the epistemic status of figurative knowledge.