Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy
Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
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2013
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-779-3 (ISBN)
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-779-3 (ISBN)
Explores how the need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination.
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
Simon Haines is Professor and Chair of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
1 Concepts, Metaphors, and Wordsworth
2 ""Tintern Abbey""--Restoring the Soul
3 Spontaneity in Kant and Wordsworth
4 Wordsworth and Political Redemption I--Paradise
5 Wordsworth and Political Redemption II-- Paradise Lost
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.8.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Making of the Christian Imagination |
Verlagsort | Waco |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 599 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-60258-779-5 / 1602587795 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-60258-779-3 / 9781602587793 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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