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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... reading audience . This invites , indeed requires , " the systematic attempt to carve out an audience . " 25 Urging the example of his own Lay Sermons , Coleridge wrote , " I would that the greater part of our publication could be thus ...
... reading audience . This invites , indeed requires , " the systematic attempt to carve out an audience . " 25 Urging the example of his own Lay Sermons , Coleridge wrote , " I would that the greater part of our publication could be thus ...
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... READING FLY , " Coleridge , Statesman's Manual , 36- 37n . * . 31 Both these institutions were significant in increasing the numbers of middle- class readers in the early nineteenth century , although contemporary fears and the ...
... READING FLY , " Coleridge , Statesman's Manual , 36- 37n . * . 31 Both these institutions were significant in increasing the numbers of middle- class readers in the early nineteenth century , although contemporary fears and the ...
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... Reading Public , " a development Coleridge argues is a social threat precisely because it funds the oppressive influence of the " trivially learned . " 32 The Root of the Evil is a Public - and take my word for it , this will wax more ...
... Reading Public , " a development Coleridge argues is a social threat precisely because it funds the oppressive influence of the " trivially learned . " 32 The Root of the Evil is a Public - and take my word for it , this will wax more ...
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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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