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Frederick Burwick
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Coleridge and Scepticism
Ben Brice
240 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-929025-3
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Hardback
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18 October 2007
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- An interdisciplinary study of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his theory of poetic symbolism
- Provides an original and detailed account of Coleridge's relationship to important intellectual precursors such as Kant, Hume, Locke, Newton, Boyle, and Calvin
- Relates Coleridge's reflections on the symbol and the 'book of nature' to important developments in natural philosophy and Protestant theology
Coleridge tended to view objects in the natural world as if they were capable of articulating truths about his own poetic psyche. He also regarded such objects as if they were capable of illustrating and concretely embodying truths about a transcendent spiritual realm. After 1805, he posited a series of analogical 'likenesses' connecting the rational principles that inform human cognition with the rational principles that he believed informed the teleological structure of the natural world. Human reason and the principle of rationality realised objectively in Nature were both
regarded as finite effects of God's seminal Word. Although Coleridge intuitively felt that nature had been constructed as a 'mirror' of the human mind, and that both mind and nature were 'mirrors' of a transcendent spiritual realm, he never found an explanation of such experiences that was fully immune to his own sceptical doubts.
Coleridge and Scepticism examines the nature of these sceptical doubts, as well as offering a new explanatory account of why Coleridge was unable to affirm his religious intuitions. Ben Brice situates his work within two important intellectual traditions. The first, a tradition of epistemological 'piety' or 'modesty', informs the work of key precursors such as Kant, Hume, Locke, Boyle, and Calvin, and relates to Protestant critiques of
natural reason. The second, a tradition of theological voluntarism, emphasises the omnipotence and transcendence of God, as well as the arbitrary relationship subsisting between God and the created world. Brice argues that Coleridge's detailed familiarity with both of these interrelated intellectual traditions, ultimately served to undermine his confidence in his ability to read the symbolic language of God in nature.Readership: Students and scholar of Coleridge, British Romanticism, and the History of Ideas
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Ben Brice, Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in English, St John's College, Oxford
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"The lucidity and rigour of Coleridge and Scepticism should recommend it not just to Coleridgeans, but to any reader interested in interactions between literature and philosophy in the long eighteenth century." - James Vigus, The Review of Englsih Studies
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Introduction
I: Theological Voluntarism and Protestant Critiques of Natural Reason
II: Hume's 'Fork': Scepticism and Natural Religion
III: 'That Uncertain Heaven': Coleridge's Poetry and Prose 1795 to 1805
IV: Between Flesh and Spirit: Coleridge's Prose Writings 1815 to 1825
Conclusion
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