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Coleridge and Kantian ideas in England, 1796-1817 : Coleridge's responses to German philosophy / Monika Class

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Class, Monika
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London ; New York [N.Y.] : Bloomsbury, 2012.
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Contents
Introduction -- The early mediators of Kant in Bristol and London -- Coleridge's moral-political engagement in the mid 1790s -- Coleridge and the categorical imperative in 1796 -- Coleidge's poetic response to perpetual peace, 1796-1802 -- The closet Kantian -- Kant's giant hand: repression and genial self-construction in biographia literaria -- Coleridge, Nitsch and the distinction between reason and understanding.
Summary
"Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10,1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the nineteenth century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge's thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet's turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge's discovery of Kant came at an earlier point than has been previously recognized, this book examines the historical roots of Coleridge's life-long preoccupation with Kant over a period of twenty years from the first extant Kant entry until the publication of his autobiography. Drawing on previously unpublished contemporary reviews of Kant and seeking socio-political meaning outside the literary canon in the English radical circles of the 1790s, Monika Class here establishes conceptual affinities between Coleridge's writings and that of Kant's earliest English mediators and in doing so revises Coleridge's allegedly non-political response to Kant"--
"Examines the influence of Kant - and in particular the neglected influence of his moral and political philosophy - on the work of Coleridge"--
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9781441185419 (electronic bk.)
1441185410 (electronic bk.)
9781283853309 (MyiLibrary)
1283853302 (MyiLibrary)
9781474211659 (online)
1474211658
9781441104960 (electronic book)
1441104968
9781441180759
1441180753
1472532392
9781472532398
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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