Coleridge and Kantian ideas in England, 1796-1817 Coleridge's responses to German philosophy Monika Class.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Class, Monika, author.

Series:

Continuum Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Philosophy.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Knowledge--Philosophy, German.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Influence.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Bloomsbury 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10,1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the nineteenth century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge's thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet's turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge's discovery of Kant came at an earlier point than has been previously recognized, this book examines the historical roots of Coleridge's life-long preoccupation with Kant over a period of twenty years from the first extant Kant entry until the publication of his autobiography. Drawing on previously unpublished contemporary reviews of Kant and seeking socio-political meaning outside the literary canon in the English radical circles of the 1790s, Monika Class here establishes conceptual affinities between Coleridge's writings and that of Kant's earliest English mediators and in doing so revises Coleridge's allegedly non-political response to Kant."-- Provided by publisher

Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the 19th century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge's thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet's turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge's discovery of Kant came at an earlier point than has been previously recognized, this book examines the historical roots of Coleridge's life-long preoccupation with Kant over a period of 20 years from the first extant Kant entry until the publication of his autobiography. Drawing on previously unpublished contemporary reviews of Kant and seeking socio-political meaning outside the literary canon in the English radical circles of the 1790s, Monika Class here establishes conceptual affinities between Coleridge's writings and that of Kant's earliest English mediators and in doing so revises Coleridge's allegedly non-political and solitary response to Kant.

"Examines the influence of Kant - and in particular the neglected influence of his moral and political philosophy - on the work of Coleridge"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction \ 1. The Early Mediators of Kant in Bristol and London, 1790-1796 \ 2. Coleridge's moral-political engagement in the mid 1790s \ 3. Coleridge and the Categorical Imperative in 1796 \ 4. Fears in Solitude and Kant's Concept of Nature as the Guarantee for Perpetual Peace, 1798-1802 \ 5. Perpetual Peace in Coleridge's Prose, 1802-1809 \ 6. Retrospective Suppression of Early Acquaintance with Kant, 1817 \ 7. Coleridge's Reading by Anticipation of the Critique of Pure Reason, 1806 \ Conclusion: Beyond 'Coleridge and the Transmission of Kantian Philosophy' \ Bibliography \ Index

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviated Titles

Introduction

1. The Early Mediators of Kant in Bristol and London

2. Coleridge's Moral-Political Engagement in the mid-1790s

3. Coleridge and the Categorical Imperative in 1796

4. Coleridge's Poetic Response to Perpetual Peace, 1796-1802

5. The Closet Kantian

6. Kant's Giant Hand: Repression and Genial Self-Construction in Biographia Literaria

7. Coleridge, Nitsch and the Distinction between Reason and Understanding

Conclusion: Beyond Coleridge

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-235) and index

ISBN:

9781474211659

1474211658

9781283853309

1283853302

9781441185419

1441185410

OCLC:

820011184