| 书目名称 | The Coleridge Legacy | | 副标题 | Samuel Taylor Coleri | | 编辑 | Philip Aherne | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Sheds light on a long neglected and complex area and breaks considerable new ground by uncovering Coleridgean connections in seemingly unlikely places.Presents Coleridge as a formative Victorian intel | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions (particularly preaching and teaching). Chapters assess his pedagogy and his late publications, his posthumous reputation, and his influence on aesthetics, theology, philosophy, politics and social reform. The book discusses a wide range of British and American intellectuals, including Thomas and Matthew Arnold, F. D. Maurice, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Shadworth Hodgson, T. H. Green, James Marsh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Bushnell, William James and John Dewey. It demonstrates how Coleridgean ideas were developed and distorted into something he would never have recognized as his own and emphasizes his significance as a catalyst who played a vital role in shaping the intellectual vocation of the long nineteenth century.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Reception studies; Afterlives; Romanticism; Transcendentalism; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Intellectual history; | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95858-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-07107-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-95858-3 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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,Introduction: The Elusive Legacy, |
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Aherne offers an assessment of the complexities of Coleridge’s legacy and our understanding of it, arguing that there is plenty of contemporary evidence for the significance of his influence, but the evolution of his prose works (and the fact that much of his thought runs through marginalia and his notebooks), the problems that arose in response to the plagiarism accusations and the dominance of his poetic fame have prohibited a comprehensive assessment of it. He discusses the previous critical approaches before explaining his justification for why intellectual history is the best way to assess this topic, introduces the range of thinkers the book will engage with, and describes their relationships to one and other, as well as to Coleridge.
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,The Sad Ghost: Coleridge as the Sage of Highgate, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne argues the later Coleridge, who spent the last third of his life in Highgate, saw himself as an educator, and expended considerable effort in trying to target young men destined for the higher professions (namely preaching and teaching), actively preparing the ground for his influence. This chapter analyses his thoughts on education in his later works, and how he designed his influence through them, before contextualizing contemporary accounts of his monologue (some distinctly critical, others generously complimentary) alongside his own reflections about it; lastly, the vital centrality of his talk is evidenced by assessing its implications for his intellectual process, asserting how his verbal intellect and the discursive fragmentation of his prose and thought style counter accusations about Coleridge’s lack of a complete philosophical system.
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,The Ruined Man: Coleridge’s Posthumous Reputation, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne provides an assessment of how Coleridge’s posthumous reputation disabled and enabled his influence. The chapter discusses how authoritative voices such as Thomas Carlyle, William Hazlitt, and Leslie Stephen, among others, criticized Coleridge; their accounts, whilst not essentially inaccurate, were unbalanced: they bolstered their respective prejudices with information about Coleridge’s domestic life and personal history, and they argued against Coleridge being a significant intellectual and cultural figure, thus undermining the validity of his influence. However, Coleridge’s family and supporters responded by renovating his published works in a bid to stabilize his achievement. Lastly, a counter-tradition of Coleridgean supporters arose in defence of him, and the fate of Coleridge’s negative reputation is explored through a consideration of poetic accounts and literary assessments.
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,The Power of Criticism: Poetry, Aestheticism, and Literary Criticism, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne discusses the importance of Coleridge’s role in creating the critic (wherein they gained more intellectual power than the artist), and how it is one of the most prominent aspects of his legacy (in part thanks to the rise of Cambridge English), and also the most erroneous, because this success ultimately marginalized his intellectual significance. The chapter concentrates on the role and fate of the Romantic poet, and how Tennyson was judged against their standard, before examining how the durability of these Romantic notions combined with Coleridge’s influence on religious culture in the Aesthetic Movement; lastly the revival of Coleridge as the ancestor of modern criticism during the first decades of the twentieth century is discussed, and his place in the critical theories of Eliot, Richards, Collingwood and Dewey in considered.
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,The Construction of Doubt: Reflection, Faith, and the Knowledge of God, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne argues that Coleridge’s influence on philosophy and theology is, in many ways, the most revelatory component of his legacy, because his intellectual credentials were called into question so persistently after he died, dramatically diminishing the validity of his contribution. Indeed, his dubious status as a philosopher has long undermined his (rightful) position in the history of nineteenth-century thought, but his ‘constructive’ philosophy armed the succeeding generation against scepticism. The chapter outlines how Coleridge’s approach to philosophy generally (particularly his distinction between the Reason and the Understanding) made him an intellectual catalyst for American philosophers before examining the endurance of Coleridge’s defence of faith as self-evidencing through emotional conviction; lastly it discusses the intellectual development of those influenced by Coleridge, as well as analysing the fate of some of his positions.
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,The Endurance of Idealism: Ethics, Epistemology, and the Self, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne argues that Coleridge’s attempt to combine religion and philosophy (a mix of German transcendentalism, Platonic creeds and Christian ethics) into a single codified school resulted in his work becoming a catalyst for idealism in the period; it was essentially pedagogical, aimed at cultivating self-consciousness alongside motivating and guiding the intellectual and philosophical development of the individual mind. The chapter begins with an assessment of the reconstitution of Utilitarianism and the rise of Cambridge philosophy; it then examines Coleridge’s formative influence on epistemology and argues that it is specifically dependent on the transatlantic nature of his influence; lastly, it discusses the significance of Coleridge’s idea of the self, especially the diluted and distorted applications of his philosophy to political and aesthetic theories.
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,The Religion of Politics: The State, the Church, and Political Economy, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne argues that Coleridge’s political thought was deeply concerned with religion: he wanted to encourage a religious and moral approach to political debate, and this had a profound, shaping effect on political commentary. His analysis of and suggestions for improving the political composition of the country in . were prophetic: his mature political thought is remarkably congruous with many ‘standard’ Victorian theories and the political ideals of Coleridge’s ‘Clerisy’ became the political ideals of the age. The chapter examines the religious and moral unity of the state before discussing the political implications of Coleridge’s effect on the Victorian church; lastly, Coleridge’s vital but often-neglected position on political economy is considered.
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,The Harmony of Society: The Clerisy, Liberal Education and the Idea of Culture, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne argues that nineteenth-century political aspiration was grounded in the design and purpose of Coleridge’s ideal class, the ‘Clerisy’, and in religious notions of moral improvement and satisfaction, which depended on a flexible model of the state: one that must bind its members together into a coherent unit but also allow for—even encourage—individual development. This was the crowning achievement of Coleridge’s educational project, and centres, albeit ironically, on preserving the model of Coleridge’s influence—of shaping minds of those who can, in turn, go on to shape others. The chapter considers the social implications of the Clerisy before discussing the Coleridgean influence on theories of education; lastly, the progression of the ideal of Culture is surveyed.
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,Conclusion: The Coleridgean Vocation, |
Philip Aherne |
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Aherne concludes by assessing how Coleridge’s influence is distinct and unique. Firstly, its ultimate aim was the cultivation of independent thought, and is largely defined by its effect on university culture in both Britain and America (and not with, say, literary reception). Secondly, his achievement also came into being through an emphasis on cultivating a way of living: he was the prototype for the progressive Christian intellectual. Lastly, it is characterized by the extensibility and versatility of his thought, which represents a truly creative paradigm, where other major thinkers appropriated Coleridge’s ideas and channelled them in directions that would have been unthinkable to Coleridge himself.
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