Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

186 Pages·2007·8.48 MB·English

by  Paul Hamilton

Coleridge and German Philosophy

Coleridge and
German Philosophy
The Poet in the Land of Logic
Paul Hamilton
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Contents
Abbreviations and works cited vii
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter 1: Coleridge in the Land of Logic 1
Chapter 2: Coleridge's Philosophical Moment 13
Chapter 3: Drama as the Motor of Romantic Theory 37
Chapter 4: Coleridge's Stamina 53
Chapter 5: Coleridge's 'Coleridge' 69
Chapter 6: Renewing Friendship: Coleridge's 'Rifacciamento'
of Philosophy 89
Chapter 7: Reading from the Inside: Coleridge's
contemporary philosophical idiom 103
Chapter 8: Spelling the World 121
Notes 139
Bibliography 161
Index 171

Abbreviations and works cited
Coleridge
Aids Aids to Reflection, edited by John Beer, CC9 (1993)
BL Biographia Literaria, edited by James Engell and W. Jackson
Bate, 2vols, CC 7 (1985)
CC The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, general editor
Kathleen Coburn, Bollingen Series, 16 vols (Princeton
University Press, 1971-2001). Individual volumes in the
edition are given separate entries.
CL The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Earl
Leslie Griggs, 6 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1956-71)
CM Marginalia, edited by Heather Jackson and George Whalley, 6
parts, CC 12 (1980-2001)
CN The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn, 5
vols. Vol. 4 edited by Kathleen Coburn and Merton Christensen;
Vol. 5 edited by Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding.
Each vol. is in two parts, text and notes (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1957-2002)
Lay Sermons, edited by Reginald James White, CC6 (1972)
PhL Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy, edited by J.R.
deJ.Jackson, 2 vols, CCS (2000)
Logic Logic, edited by James Robert dejager Jackson, CC 13 (1981)
OM Opus Maximum, edited by Thomas McFarland, CC 15 (2002)
PW Poetical Works: Part 3. Plays, edited by J.C.C. Mays and Joyce
Crick, 2 vols, CC 16 (2001)
SWF Shorter Works and Fragments, edited by H.J.Jackson andj. R. de
J.Jackson, 2 vols, CC 11 (1995)
TT Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and B. Winer, 2 vols, CC
14 (1990)
The Friend The Friend, edited by Barbara E. Rooke, 2 vols, CC 4 (1969)
viii Coleridge and German Philosophy
Hegel
Phenomenology G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A.V. Miller,
with an analysis of the text and foreword by J. H. Findlay
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)
Werke G.W.F. Hegel, Werke, based on the edition of the Werke of
1832-45, newly edited version by Eva Moldenhauer and Karl
Markus Michel, 21 vols (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1970)
Kant
Werke I. Kant, Werke, edited by Wilhehn Weischedel, 12 vols (Frankfurt
am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977)
Schelling
System F.WJ. Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism, introduction
by Michael Vater, translated by Peter Heath (Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 1978)
Werke F.WJ. Schelling, Sdmmtliche Werke, edited by K.W.F. Scheiling,
part I, vols 1-10, part II, vols 11-14 (Stuttgart: Cotta,
1856-61)
Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to various people for ideas and help important to me that
they probably were not aware of giving at the time, among them Andrew
Bowie, Howard Caygill, Jim Chandler, Lilla Crisafulli, Michael Kooy, Peter
Dews. At Queen Mary University of London I have been fortunate in working
with a cohort of inspiring graduate students who have never let me stand
still. Two current ones, Rowan Boyson and Molly Macdonald, kindly read and
commented on parts of the draft
This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Patrick Hamilton (1916-
2005), who encouraged me to delight in a shared philosophical passion a long,
long time ago.