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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15 - Opus Maximum (Paperback)
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15 - Opus Maximum (Paperback)
Series: Bollingen Series
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The Opus Maximum gathers the last major body of unpublished prose
writings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Consisting primarily of
fragments dictated to Joseph Henry Green, probably between 1819 and
1823, these writings represent all that exists of what Coleridge
considered to be "the principal Labour" and "the great Object" of
his life, which he called variously the Logosophia and Magnum Opus.
Dedicated to "the reconcilement of the moral faith with the
Reason," Coleridge's envisioned Magnum Opus was supposed to "reduce
all knowledges into harmony." While such a synthesis finally eluded
him, and the Magnum Opus remained unfinished, the surviving
fragments nonetheless bear powerful witness to Coleridge's
engagement with theology, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, and
logic, among other disciplines. Among the subjects that will
particularly interest readers are Coleridge's criticisms of
Epicureanism, pantheism, and German Naturphilosophie; his attempt
to ground reason in faith; and his reflections on personhood
(especially in the relationship between mother and child), on will,
on language, and on the Logos. Previously unknown to all but a
handful of scholars, the manuscripts presented here provide
valuable insight into a crucial period of Coleridge's intellectual
development, as he became increasingly dissatisfied with
Naturphilosophie and struggled to affirm Trinitarian Christianity
on a rational basis. With this volume, The Collected Works of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begun forty years ago under the
sponsorship of the Bollingen Foundation and the editorship of the
late Kathleen Coburn, is now complete.
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