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，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，神的异象的神学概念化如何引发关于想象能力（想象力）和心理图像状态的讨论。集中于想象的愿景（即揭示的梦想，灵魂的旅程，预言的愿景）的概念，它处理了基本的悖论，即启示的精神体验总是需要通过艺术或文学的描述模式间接的，外部的确认。这种张力对美学辩论以及关于具象知识的认识论地位有着深远的影响。

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.