'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T.
Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers
the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the
contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of
ideas emerges in critical engagement with thinkers including Plato,
Plotinus, Boehme, Kant, and Schelling. A commitment to the
transcendence of reason, central to what he calls the spiritual
platonic old England, distinguishes him from his German
contemporaries. The book also engages with Coleridge's poetry,
especially in a culminating chapter dedicated to the Limbo
sequence. This book pursues a theory of contemplation that draws
from Coleridge's theories of imagination and the Ideas of Reason in
his published texts and extensively from his thoughts as they
developed throughout unpublished works, fragments, letters, and
notebooks. He posited a hierarchy of cognition from basic sense
intuition to the apprehension of scientific, ethical, and
theological ideas. The structure of the book follows this thesis,
beginning with sense data, moving upwards into aesthetic
experience, imagination, and reason, with final chapters on formal
logic and poetry that constellate the contemplation of ideas.
Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy is not just a work of history
of philosophy, it addresses a figure whose thinking is of
continuing interest, arguing that contemplation of ideas and values
has consequences for everyday morality and aesthetics, as well as
metaphysics. The volume will be of interest to philosophers,
intellectual historians, scholars of religion, and of literature.
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