Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 1-12

3. Coleridge and Spinoza

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Silence and the Pantheistic Sublime in Coleridge’s Early Poetry

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 15-23

   3. Spinoza and the Problem of the Infinite

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 24-37

   4. The Providential Wreck: Coleridge and Spinoza’s Metaphysics

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 38-56

4. Coleridge and the Pantheism Controversy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Understanding the Pantheism Controversy

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 59-67

   3. Reading under a Warp: Coleridge and Jacobi’s Transformations of ‘Reason’

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 68-89

   4. Coleridge, Mendelssohn and the Defence of Reason

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 90-107

   5. Coleridge and Schelling: The Seductions of Ideal Pantheism

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 108-142

5. The Pantheism Controversy in Coleridge’s Later Thought

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. The Anxiety of Pantheism: Hidden Dimensions of Coleridge’s Transcendental Deduction

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 145-164

   3. Coleridge’s Trinity: The Defence of Immanence

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 165-186

   4. Reason, Understanding and Truth

      • Richard Berkeley

      Pages 187-210

6. Back Matter

   Pages 211-231

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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.

• Coleridge
• philosophy
• poetry
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Spinoza
• British and Irish Literature

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.

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