Coleridge and the Conservative ImaginationMercer University Press, 2003 - 286 Seiten Why should anyone bother with Coleridge either as a theologian or a political theorist? At first in desperation, but now quite deliberately, Alan Gregory convincingly suggests that one should bother because Coleridge mounted an imporant critique of reductionist explanations of human society and moral agency, and because Coleridge has much regarding that important enterprise to teach us still. While Gregory also offers a perceptive outline of early British conservatism, his main concern is with Coleridge's attack on reductionism, including his defense of the will against associationism, his criticisms of Enlightenment historiography, his discussions of the inadequacies of political economy, and the Trinitarian arguments against monism. There is, Gregory remarks, no grasping the range or inner dynamic of Coleridge's thought without appreciating his religious vision, his theology. Indeed, Coleridge himself affirmed that should we try to conceive a man without the ideas of God, eternity, freedom, will, absolute truth, of the good, the true, the beautiful, the infinite...the man will have vanished. |
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... past so as to constrain present action : the past is an unworkable past , its significance drained to the force of a negative , a demand for thoroughgoing change , whether the process of that change be conceived as brief or lengthy ...
... past so as to constrain present action : the past is an unworkable past , its significance drained to the force of a negative , a demand for thoroughgoing change , whether the process of that change be conceived as brief or lengthy ...
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... past , the boast of a qualitative cultural leap that renders the consideration of history irrele- vant . Coleridge's historical method is aimed at restoring his readers to the community of past and present , on the basis of which the ...
... past , the boast of a qualitative cultural leap that renders the consideration of history irrele- vant . Coleridge's historical method is aimed at restoring his readers to the community of past and present , on the basis of which the ...
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... past experience : " Alas ! like lights in the stern of a vessel they illuminated the path only that had been past over ! " 144 In claims to enlightenment and to the novelty of the present , Coleridge discerns the measure of his ...
... past experience : " Alas ! like lights in the stern of a vessel they illuminated the path only that had been past over ! " 144 In claims to enlightenment and to the novelty of the present , Coleridge discerns the measure of his ...
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The Later Political Writings | 27 |
Philosophical Psychology and Conservative Politics | 39 |
Imagination and the Wisdom of History | 81 |
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