Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason

This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry and later religious thought.

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Quotations from MSS Introduction PART I: COLERIDGE AND SPINOZA Silence and the Pantheistic Sublime in Coleridge's Early Poetry Spinoza and the Problem of the Infinite The Providential Wreck: Coleridge and Spinoza's Metaphysics PART II: COLERIDGE AND THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY Understanding the Pantheism Controversy Reading under a Warp: Coleridge and Jacobi's Transformations of 'Reason' Coleridge, Mendelssohn and the Defence of Reason Coleridge and Schelling: The Seductions of Ideal Pantheism PART III: THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY IN COLERIDGE'S LATER THOUGHT The Anxiety of Pantheism: Hidden Dimensions of Coleridge's Transcendental Deduction Coleridge's Trinity: The Defence of Immanence Reason, Understanding and Truth Bibliography Notes Index

RICHARD BERKELEY completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature at the Australian National University as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is currently studying law at the University of Otago Law School, New Zealand, and is Assistant Master of Knox College, University of Otago.