Synopses & Reviews
Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalization in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most profound ideas and poetry on its basis. Armstrong shows how the tenets and ideals of organicism--despite much criticism--remain an insistent, if ambivalent, backdrop for much of our current thought, including the work of Derrida amongst others.
Synopsis
Contents Acknowledgements First Articulations PART ONE: GERMAN IDEALISM AND FR HROMANTIK Absolute Organicism in German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, and Schelling Prefaces to the New Gospel: Friedrich Schlegel and the Fragment PART TWO: ENGLISH ROMANTICISM Organic Vagaries: Coleridge's Theoretical Work Early Affinities: Friendship and Coleridge's Conversation Poems On the Threshold: Wordsworth's Architectonic of the Absolute PART THREE: MODERN THEORY Balance and Extremity: A Comparison of Richards and Bataille The Connections of Significance: Gadamer and the Vitality of Understanding On the Double: Blanchot, Derrida, and the Step Beyond Ending the Automatic Notes Bibliography Index
About the Author
Charles I. Armstrong is at the University of Bergen.
Table of Contents
Contents * Acknowledgements * First Articulations *
Part One: German Idealism and Frühromantik * Absolute Organicism in German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, and Schelling * Prefaces to the New Gospel: Friedrich Schlegel and the Fragment *
Part Two: English Romanticism * Organic Vagaries: Coleridge's Theoretical Work * Early Affinities: Friendship and Coleridge's Conversation Poems * On the Threshold: Wordsworth's Architectonic of the Absolute *
Part Three: Modern Theory * Balance and Extremity: A Comparison of Richards and Bataille * The Connections of Significance: Gadamer and the Vitality of Understanding * On the Double: Blanchot, Derrida, and the Step Beyond * Ending the Automatic * Notes * Bibliography * Index