Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy by Cheyne, Peter;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 24 January 2020

ISBN 9780198851806
Binding Hardback
No. of pages394 pages
Size 230x160x26 mm
Weight 718 g
Language English

Short description:

A study of the philosophical thought of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with a focus on the central philosophical views and their underlying metaphysic that Coleridge strove to achieve and refine over the last three decades of his life.

Long description:

'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, Böhme, 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and the Ideas of Reason in his published texts and extensively from his thoughts as they developed throughout unpublished works, fragments, letters, and notebooks.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.

[Cheyne] is engaged in the process of returning to us a Coleridge that few of us come into contact with ... in his excellent book Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy. Cheyne's truly impressive book makes substantial demands upon its readers, but this is to be expected given the far more extensive demands of the material it engages.... The result is a volume that stands out from what is often a superfluity of literature on Coleridge that confronts the reader who attempts to gain an understanding of his complex, yet fecund thought.

Introduction
Part I: Imagination Launched into Reason
The 'Sense' of Knowledge
Contemplative Practice and the Ideas
Aesthetic Contemplation
Part II: Living Ideas
The Art of Poetic Life-Writing
Adapting Böhme's Bipolar Model
The Energic-Energetic Distinction and Coleridge's Two-Level Theory of Mind
Part III: Coleridge's Modified Platonism
The Divided Line: Lower and Higher
The Coleridgean Idea
Part IV: A Realizing Knowledge
Developing Polarity: Trichotomy, Tetractys, and Pentad
The Way Down and the Way Up
The Blind that Gaze, the Blind that Creep Back, Shades that Flit, and the Dragon
Conclusion