The statesman's science
Subtitle: history, nature, and law in the political thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By: Pamela Edwards.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Political and social views.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- History.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- Law.; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered as a romantic poet. This reconsideration of Coleridge's thought and career not only demonstrates his importance as a philosopher but recovers romanticism as a political as well as an aesthetic movement. Pamela Edwards radically departs from classic theories of Coleridge's development and interprets his writing against the backdrop of a shifting political and social landscape." "Drawing on the ideology, rhetoric, and institutional theory at the turn of the late British Enlightenment, Edwards unearths the fundamental continuities in Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 to 1834, paying particular attention to the rhetoric of Coleridge's pamphlet and miscellaneous writings, the journalism of the Napoleonic years, his philosophical and ultimately political treatises within the contexts of his notebooks and letters, and his readings and intellectual friendships. What emerges is a clearer understanding of Coleridge's political philosophy and his contributions to the origins and ideology of British Liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.