Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason

Informationen zum Autor RICHARD BERKELEY completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature at the Australian National University as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is currently studying law at the University of Otago Law School, New Zealand, and is Assistant Master of Knox College, University of Otago. Klappentext This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry and later religious thought. Zusammenfassung This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry and later religious thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Quotations from MSS Introduction PART I: COLERIDGE AND SPINOZA Silence and the Pantheistic Sublime in Coleridge's Early Poetry Spinoza and the Problem of the Infinite The Providential Wreck: Coleridge and Spinoza's Metaphysics PART II: COLERIDGE AND THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY Understanding the Pantheism Controversy Reading under a Warp: Coleridge and Jacobi's Transformations of 'Reason' Coleridge, Mendelssohn and the Defence of Reason Coleridge and Schelling: The Seductions of Ideal Pantheism PART III: THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY IN COLERIDGE'S LATER THOUGHT The Anxiety of Pantheism: Hidden Dimensions of Coleridge's Transcendental Deduction Coleridge's Trinity: The Defence of Immanence Reason, Understanding and Truth Bibliography Notes Index

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Quotations from MSS Introduction PART I: COLERIDGE AND SPINOZA Silence and the Pantheistic Sublime in Coleridge's Early Poetry Spinoza and the Problem of the Infinite The Providential Wreck: Coleridge and Spinoza's Metaphysics PART II: COLERIDGE AND THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY Understanding the Pantheism Controversy Reading under a Warp: Coleridge and Jacobi's Transformations of 'Reason' Coleridge, Mendelssohn and the Defence of Reason Coleridge and Schelling: The Seductions of Ideal Pantheism PART III: THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY IN COLERIDGE'S LATER THOUGHT The Anxiety of Pantheism: Hidden Dimensions of Coleridge's Transcendental Deduction Coleridge's Trinity: The Defence of Immanence Reason, Understanding and Truth Bibliography Notes Index

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• Authors: R Berkeley, R. Berkeley, Richard Berkeley
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349356553
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35655-3
• No. of pages: 243
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Europe, Poetry, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophy of religion, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Modern Philosophy, Religion—Philosophy, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Early Modern Philosophy