The "Opus Maximum" gathers the last major body of unpublished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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