Coherence in 'Biographia Literaria': God, self, and Coleridge's "seminal principle.": An article from: Philological Quarterly

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From the supplier: Coleridge's discussion of imagination in Chapter 13 of 'Biographia Literaria' has baffled many critics, but is best understood as a resolution of the philosophical problems described earlier in the book. In the first eleven chapters, Coleridge details his philosophical development, discussing three specific problems: Hartley's theory of association, the conflict between materialism and dualism, and pantheism. Coleridge presents imagination as viewed by transcendental philosophy as the solution to all these problems. Transcendental philosophy views contradiction as basic to all thought and imagination as the reconciliation of opposites.

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Title: Coherence in 'Biographia Literaria': God, self, and Coleridge's "seminal principle."
Author: Paul Scott Wilson
Publication:Philological Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: University of Iowa
Volume: v72 Issue: n4 Page: p451(19)

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