Author of "Kubla Khan" and the epic "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner," Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered principally for his
contributions as a romantic poet. This innovative reconsideration
of Coleridge's thought and career not only demonstrates his
importance as a philosopher but also recovers romanticism as both
an aesthetic and a political movement. Pamela Edwards radically
departs from classic theories of Coleridge's development and reads
his writing within the framework of a constantly shifting political
and social landscape.
Drawing on the ideology, rhetoric, and institutional theory at
the turn of the late British Enlightenment, Edwards unearths the
fundamental continuities in Coleridge's writing during the
revolutionary period of 1794 to 1834, paying particular attention
to the rhetoric of Coleridge's pamphlet and miscellaneous writings,
the journalism of the Napoleonic years, his philosophical and
ultimately political treatises within the contexts of his notebooks
and letters, and his readings and intellectual friendships. What
emerges is a clearer understanding of Coleridge's political
philosophy and his contributions to the origins and ideology of
British Liberalism.
Coleridge's interest in history, nature, and law as inherently
interconnected projects producing an ideal or scientific reading of
society reveals a developed progressive social and cultural state
theory anchored in individual conscience, moral autonomy, and a
civic and participatory human agency. If the Statesman could
understand and finally master this scientific view of the world, he
would be able not only to adjust political and social institutions
to comprehend the historical contingencies of the moment but to see
through the problem of the moment to the dynamic of change
itself.
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