Umfang:
xi, 180 Seiten
Ausgabe:
First published
ISBN:
9781137531452
Inhalt:
"A Modern Coleridge presents Coleridge as an eminently modern thinker, whose works stage the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction, and habit. These, the book shows, all revolve around a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's idea of the 'human'. Rather than being interested in opium, A Modern Coleridge focuses on the phenomenon of addiction as a disease of volition symptomatic of a civilization in excess, posing a threat to cultivation, to the unfolding of Coleridgean 'humanity'. Habit is posited as a third term between cultivation and addiction, the human and the non-human; being constitutive parts of Coleridgean cultivation, good habits (as opposed to bad ones) turn the working of free will itself into an automatism. Engaging with philosophy, ethics, politics and poetics, A Modern Coleridge reframes both prose and poetry, including The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Dejection: an Ode, or The Eolian Harp"--
Inhalt:
"A Modern Coleridge presents Coleridge as an eminently modern thinker, whose works stage the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction, and habit. These, the book shows, all revolve around a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's idea of the 'human'. Rather than being interested in opium, A Modern Coleridge focuses on the phenomenon of addiction as a disease of volition symptomatic of a civilization in excess, posing a threat to cultivation, to the unfolding of Coleridgean 'humanity'. Habit is posited as a third term between cultivation and addiction, the human and the non-human; being constitutive parts of Coleridgean cultivation, good habits (as opposed to bad ones) turn the working of free will itself into an automatism. Engaging with philosophy, ethics, politics and poetics, A Modern Coleridge reframes both prose and poetry, including The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Dejection: an Ode, or The Eolian Harp"--
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 167-176 und Index
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Machine generated contents note:AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPART I: CULTIVATION1. Cultivating Reason and the Will2. The Shaping Spirit of Education3. Staging Education: 'The Appeal to Law'. Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'. And 'The Ancient Mariner'4. Sympathy: Adam Smith and Coleridgean EducationPART II: ADDICTION5. Re-reading Culture and Addiction: Coleridge's Writings on Civilisation and Walter Benjamin's Analysis of Modernity and the Addict6. Craving for Novelties - Craving for Novels: The Politics of Intoxicated Reading7. He 'did not write, he acted poems': Kubla Khan, Luther and RousseauPART III: HABITS8. 'habits of active industry' (AI, 49)9. The Habit of 'abstruse research': 'Dejection: and Ode'Conclusion: Cultivation through Love: 'Effusion XXXV' and 'The Eolian Harp'BibliographyIndex.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
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Gewohnheit
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Willensfreiheit
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