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Coleridge's Philosophy - The Logos as Unifying Principle (Hardcover)
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Coleridge's Philosophy - The Logos as Unifying Principle (Hardcover)
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Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. `I
am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, `but in America, I am a
great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that `the time is yet
far distant when, in the estimation of Coleridge, and of his
influence upon the intellect of our time, anything like unanimity
can be looked for' seems to have been justified. Mary Anne Perkins
re-examines Coleridge's claim to have developed a `logosophic'
system which attempted `to reduce all knowledges into harmony'. She
pays particular attention to his later writings, some of which are
still unpublished. She suggests that the accusations of plagiarism
and of muddled, abstruse metaphysics which have been levelled at
him may be challenged by a thorough reading of his work in which
his unifying principle is revealed. She explores the various
meanings for the term `Logos', a recurrent theme in every area of
Coleridge's thought - philosophy, religion, natural science,
history, political and social criticism, literary theory, and
psychology. Coleridge was responding to the concerns of his own
time, a revolutionary age in which increasing intellectual and
moral fragmentation and confusion seemed to him to threaten both
individuals and society. Drawing on the whole of Western
intellectual history, he offered a ground for philosophy which was
relational rather than mechanistic. He is one of those few thinkers
whose work appears to become more interesting, his perceptions more
acute, as the historical gulf widens. This book is a contribution
to the reassessment that he deserves.
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