Coleridge's Metaphysics of Beauty
The article investigates the significance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's metaphysics of beauty. It addresses both his aesthetic of harmony and his aesthetic of light. Neither of these is a simple repetition of its traditional niodel. Regarding the former aesthetic, the article addresses the wavs...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
2021
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Religion & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 52/53, Issue: 3/1, Pages: 1-25 |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
/ Metaphysics
/ Beauty
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| IxTheo Classification: | TJ Modern history VA Philosophy |
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Phenomenology
B Aporia B Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 B Thomism B Barth, J. Robert B Metaphysics |
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| Summary: | The article investigates the significance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's metaphysics of beauty. It addresses both his aesthetic of harmony and his aesthetic of light. Neither of these is a simple repetition of its traditional niodel. Regarding the former aesthetic, the article addresses the wavs in which Coleridge draws oil many traditions of philosophy and theology. without forcing these often-divergent stiands into an artificial synthesis. While some of the resultant tensions are resolved very sliggestively, others are equally suggestive because of the irresolution tliat is preserved within theni. I construe this more complex model of harmony in terins of his serpentine line of beauty - a form which achieves colierence witliout closure or final resolution. Tlie article also shows that the latter aesthetic, which is often overlooked, has the capacity to clarify some important but otherwise aporetic dimensions of his thought The interrelationship between these two aesthetics is addressed from a number of perspectives: Coleridge's empliasis on glimmering light is related to the serpentine line; both aesthetics are shown to be grounded iii experience. Tlic article thus demonstrates that Coleridge's metaphysics of beauty is not posited over and against phenomenology, but exists as an opening onto. and even an impetus toward, a deeper attentiveness to the world of phenomena, materiality, and human experience. |
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| Item Description: | Die Hefte mit der Zählung 52.2020,3 und 53.2021,1 sind als Doppelheft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0035 |