Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy (eBook)

Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination

Simon Haines (Autor)

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2013
269 Seiten
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-781-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

lt;P>Simon Haines is Professor and Chair of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2013
• Reihe/Serie: The Making of the Christian Imagination
• Reihe/Serie: The Making of the Christian Imagination
• Verlagsort: Waco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Wordsworth, Kant, Schleiermacher, Byron, Shelley, Goethe, Augustine, Milton
• ISBN-10: 1-60258-781-7 / 1602587817
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60258-781-6 / 9781602587816