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- Title: Paul Hamilton. Coleridge and German Philosophy. The Poet in the Land of Logic (Book Review)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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Paul Hamilton. Coleridge and German Philosophy. The Poet in the Land of Logic. London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. 175. $130.00. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's status as a philosopher continues to be a subject of debate among Coleridge scholars. His failure to produce other than fragmentary accounts of his own philosophical system during his lifetime leaves only the surviving fragments of his Opus Maximum as indicators of what a Coleridgean system might have looked like, and his notorious unacknowledged borrowings from Schelling and other thinkers, as well as the fact that many of his philosophical insights emerge in the process of reading and as marginalia to the work of others make it difficult to clearly assess Coleridge's significance as a philosopher in his own right. Meanwhile, Coleridge's continued attempts to employ the latest developments in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophical thought for ultimately religious and theological ends lead some critics to dismiss him as a philosopher altogether. Coleridge's deep and lasting interest in philosophical questions, however, and his commitment to the philosophical debates of his day, are beyond any doubt, as is his conviction that principled philosophical argument is necessary to ground a meaningful discussion in matters of poetics, criticism, politics, and religion. In this context, the particular importance of German philosophy for Coleridge's work and thought, the topic of Paul Hamilton's latest book, Coleridge and German Philosophy, can hardly be overstated.