Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism,
critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological
works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his
thinking about the symbolizing imagination, a precursor to
contemplation, into a theory of contemplation itself, which for him
occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of 'Reason'. Coleridge
is a particularly challenging figure because he was a thinker in
process, and something of an omnimath, a Renaissance man of the
Romantic era. The dynamic quality of his thinking, the 'dark
fluxion' pursued but ultimately 'unfixable by thought', and his
extensive range of interests make a philosophical yet also
multi-disciplinary approach to Coleridge essential. This book is
the first collection to feature philosophers and intellectual
historians writing on Coleridge's philosophy. This volume opens up
a neglected aspect of the work of Britain's greatest
philosopher-poet - his analysis of contemplation, which he
considered the highest of human mental powers. Philosophers
including Roger Scruton, David E. Cooper, Michael McGhee, Andy
Hamilton, and Peter Cheyne contribute original essays on the
philosophical, literary, and political implications of Coleridge's
views. The volume is edited and introduced by Peter Cheyne, and
Baroness Mary Warnock contributes a foreword. The chapters by
philosophers are supported by new developments in philosophically
minded criticism from leading Coleridge scholars in English
departments, including Jim Mays, Kathleen Wheeler, and James
Engell. They approach Coleridge as an energetic yet contemplative
thinker concerned with the intuition of ideas and the processes of
cultivation in self and society. Other chapters, from intellectual
historians and theologians, including Douglas Hedley clarify the
historical background, and 'religious musings', of Coleridge's
thought regarding contemplation.
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