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Hopkins' Idealism - Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Hopkins' Idealism - Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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The conventional picture of the young Hopkins as a conservative
High-Church ritualist is starkly contested by this study which
draws upon his unpublished Oxford essays on philosophy to reveal a
boldly speculative intellectual liberal. Less concerned with
Christian factionalism than with countering contemporary threats to
faith itself, Hopkins' thought is seen to follow that of his
teachers Benjamin Jowett and T. H. Green, who turned to Kant and
Hegel to vouchsafe the grounds of Christian belief against
contemporary scientism. Hopkins' personal metaphysic of 'inscape'
and 'instress', which has long been recognized as crucial to the
understanding of his poetry, is traced here to concepts derived
from the 'British Idealism' he encountered at Oxford and the new
energy physics of the 1850s and 1860s. By locating his thought at
the intellectual avant-garde of his age, the striking modernity of
his poetry need no longer be seen as an historical anomaly. The
book offers radical re-readings not only of his metaphysics and
theology, but also of his best-known poems.
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