Platonic Coleridge

by Vigus, James

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Full title :Platonic Coleridge / James Vigus.

Summary

"The ambivalent curiosity of the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) towards Plato - 'but I love Plato - his dear gorgeous nonsense!' - soon developed into a philosophical project, and the mature Coleridge proclaimed himself a reviver of Plato's unwritten or esoteric 'systems'. James Vigus's study traces Coleridge's discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the 'divine philosopher', and his Platonic interpretation of Kant's epistemology. It compares Coleridge's figurations of poetic inspiration with models in the Platonic dialogues, and investigates whether Coleridge's esoteric 'system' of philosophy ultimately fulfilled the Republic's notorious banishment of poetry."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009

Notes

Originally published: Abingdon : Legenda, 2009.

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Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351194419, 1351194410
oclc:on1021146975
LC Classification:B1583.Z7
Dewey Decimal:821.7

Introduction -- Plato's 'dear gorgeous nonsense' -- Coleridge's Kant: preparer and opponent of Platonism -- The ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy -- Plato in Coleridge's Lectures on the history of philosophy -- Restoring Plato's 'system': the Friend and the Opus maximum -- Conclusion.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Criticism, interpretation, etc Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Kant, Immanuel Philosophy Plato POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel…