Author: James C. McKusick
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ISBN: OCLC:468127998
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Coleridge Philosophy and Religion
2) Hans Aarsleff has pointed out the centrality of Locke's insistence that the origin of language is human and not divine.102 He remarks that `the most spectacular and pervasive in ̄uence of the Essay occurred in the new philosophy of ...
Author: Douglas Hedley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139428187
Category: Religion
Page: 330
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Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with, German Idealism. Moreover, the principal impulse behind his engagement with that philosophy is traced to the more immediate context of English Unitarian-Trinitarian controversy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form
Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Searchfor the Language ofNature (Ohio ... tradition is James C. McKusick's Coleridge's Philosophy of Language (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
Author: Ewan James Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107068445
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 261
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This book argues that Coleridge's most important philosophical ideas were expressed not through theoretical argument but through his poems.Coleridge s Philosophy of Language
Coleridge and German Philosophy
Again, the issue of unattributed borrowings, that Schelling is prepared to overlook, has perhaps obscured the more substantial connection between his own understanding of mythology and Coleridge's philosophy of language.
Author: Paul Hamilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781441165954
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 192
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. It argues that Coleridge found his philosophical adventures in the dominant idiom of his times exciting and as imaginatively engaging as poetry. Paul Hamilton situates major themes in Coleridge's prose and poetic writings in relation to his passion for German philosophy. He argues that Coleridge's infectious attachment to German (post-Kantian) philosophy was due to its symmetries with the structure of his Christian belief. Coleridge is read as an excited and winning expositor of this philosophy's power to articulate an absolute grounding of reality. Its comprehensiveness, however, rendered redundant further theological description, undermining the faith it had seemed to support. Thus arose Coleridge's anxious disguising of his German plagiarisms, aspersions cast on German originality, and his claims to have already experienced their insights within his own religious sensibility or in the writings of Anglican divines and neo-Platonists. This book recovers the extent to which his ideas call to be expanded within German philosophical debate.The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Insofar as philosophers affect the meanings of words—or, still more radically, affect the structure of language itself (as Coleridge suggests above, presumably having in mind the birth of Romance languages from medieval Latin)—their ...
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191651083
Category: Literary Criticism
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A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across the world, present an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into sections on Biography, Prose Works, Poetic Works, Sources and Influences, and Reception. The Coleridge scholar today has ready access to a range of materials previously available only in library archives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bollingen edition, of the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forty years in production was completed in 2002. The Coleridge Notebooks (1957-2002) were also produced during this same period, five volumes of text with an additional five companion volumes of notes. The Clarendon Press of Oxford published the letters in six volumes (1956-1971). To take full advantage of the convenient access and new insight provided by these volumes, the Oxford Handbook examines the entire range and complexity of Coleridge's career. It analyzes the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and it furnishes both students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridge's rich and varied accomplishments, as well as offering an authoritative guide to the most up-to-date thinking about his achievements.Experimental Life
Christensen's Coleridge's Blessed Machine of Language remains one of the most perceptive accounts of Coleridge's struggles with Hartley's philosophy, and my chapter as a whole draws inspiration from Christensen's acute observation of ...
Author: Robert Mitchell
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9781421410890
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 320
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Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life. Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art. Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.The Challenge of Coleridge
James McKusick discusses Coleridge's belief that “the mere fact of signification is not what makes language distinctively human” (Coleridge's Philosophy of Language 125). 13. This is not a proto-Darwinian view of evolution, ...
Author: David Haney
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271076805
Category: Literary Criticism
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Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the relationship of interpretation to ethics and whose ideas can be both illuminated and challenged by Coleridge’s insights into and struggles with this relationship. In his philosophy, poetry, theology, and personal life, Coleridge revealed his concern with this issue, as it manifests itself in the relation between technical and ethical discourse, between fact and value, between self and other, and in the ethical function of aesthetic experience and the role of love in interpretation and ethical action. Relying on Gadamer’s hermeneutics to supply a framework for his approach, Haney connects Coleridge’s ideas with, among others, Emmanuel Levinas’s other-oriented notion of ethical subjectivity, Paul Ricoeur’s view about the other’s implication in the self, reinterpretations of Greek drama by Bernard Williams and Martha Nussbaum, and Gianni Vattimo's post-Nietzschean hermeneutics. Coleridge is treated not as a product of Romantic ideology to be deconstructed from a modern perspective, but as a writer who offers a "challenge" to our modern tendency to compartmentalize interpretive issues as a concern for literary theorists and ethical issues as a concern for philosophers. Looking at the two together, Haney shows through his reading of Coleridge, can enrich our understanding of both.Coleridge s Writings
Fruman, Norman, 'Coleridge's Rejection of Nature and the Natural Man,” in Richard Gravil et al. (eds), Coleridge's Imagination (Cambridge, ... McKusick, James C. Coleridge's Philosophy of Language (New Haven, Conn., and London, 1986).
Author: A. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781349233243
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 281
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'This is an important and illuminating collection, however, which could only have been assembled by a formidably learned scholar.' - N. Fruman, Choice From Coleridge's vast writings this book assembles excerpts from Coleridge's inquiries into the workings of consciousness and the soul; man's evolution and divergence from animals; the varieties of human weakness and evil and the creation of culture and belief join to suggest an underlying coherence in Coleridge's interdisciplinary thought. The editor has arranged material from an assortment of public and private writings, and has provided linking commentary to the texts and notes. This volume follows John Morrow's volume, the first in the series, On Politics and Society (1990).