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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... doctrine , in particular , that of a Trinitarian understanding of God . His theory of the imagination is a theo- logical theory and his politics , in a sense we shall describe later , a theo- logical politics . The theology , however ...
... doctrine , in particular , that of a Trinitarian understanding of God . His theory of the imagination is a theo- logical theory and his politics , in a sense we shall describe later , a theo- logical politics . The theology , however ...
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... doctrine of the mind that has , I will argue , a remarkable range of implication . Within this psychology , the imagina- tion , among the powers of the mind , is decisive for the human calling . So essential is Coleridge's theory of the ...
... doctrine of the mind that has , I will argue , a remarkable range of implication . Within this psychology , the imagina- tion , among the powers of the mind , is decisive for the human calling . So essential is Coleridge's theory of the ...
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... doctrine ; nevertheless , even in these lectures , his anthropology engages themes less optimistic than those found among " British Jacobins , " Painites , and Godwinians . Thus , we find somewhat Augustinian hints of the threat the ...
... doctrine ; nevertheless , even in these lectures , his anthropology engages themes less optimistic than those found among " British Jacobins , " Painites , and Godwinians . Thus , we find somewhat Augustinian hints of the threat the ...
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... doctrine of providence according to which we are " disposed and marshalled . . . by a divine tactick . " 54 This reading of history and reason , together with his theological convictions , distinguishes Burke's conservatism from both ...
... doctrine of providence according to which we are " disposed and marshalled . . . by a divine tactick . " 54 This reading of history and reason , together with his theological convictions , distinguishes Burke's conservatism from both ...
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... doctrine of imperfection , reject the Christian framework . See , for instance , T. E. Hulme , " Romanticism and Classicism , " and " A Tory Philosophy , " in Selected Writings , ed . Patrick McGuinness ( Manchester : Carcenet Press ...
... doctrine of imperfection , reject the Christian framework . See , for instance , T. E. Hulme , " Romanticism and Classicism , " and " A Tory Philosophy , " in Selected Writings , ed . Patrick McGuinness ( Manchester : Carcenet Press ...
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Imagination and the Wisdom of History | 71 |
History as Prophecy | 96 |
Stifling the Imagination | 179 |
The Conservative Imagination Culture Nature and Grace | 197 |
Church State and the Higher Reason | 208 |
The Ordering of Nature and Culture | 233 |
The Worlds Befriending Opposite | 241 |
The Imagination | 255 |
Conclusion | 259 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Social Conflict and the Balance of the Mind | 119 |
Reason and the Critique of Commerce | 143 |
Social Criticism and the Religious Imagination | 167 |
Indexes | 281 |
Subject Index | 283 |
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Seite 62 - The IMAGINATION, then, I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Seite 12 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science ; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate ; but that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation ; and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens ;...
Seite 62 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Seite 13 - ... the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, molding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Seite 14 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Seite 39 - Should children be permitted to read romances, and relations of giants and magicians and genii? I know all that has been said against it ; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. I know no other way of giving the mind a love of the Great and the Whole.
Seite 22 - Besides the ideas, with their annexed pains and pleasures, which are presented by the sense; the mind of man possesses a sort of creative power of its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Seite 103 - These are the wheels which Ezekiel beheld, when the hand of the Lord was upon him, and he saw visions of God as he sate among the captives by the river of Chebar. Whithersoever the Spirit was to go, the wheels went, and thither was their spirit to go: — for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels also...
Seite 100 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it : for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon : and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Seite 150 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.