Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy

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

Simon Haines (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

269 Seiten

2013
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-779-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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
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