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70Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The aesthetics of imperfection is thus typified by organic, unpolished production and the avoidance of per…Read more
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27Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy, ed. Endre SzécsényiAberdeen University Press. 2020.On 18–19 May 2018, a symposium was held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ronald W. Hepburn (1927–2008). The speakers at this event discussed Hepburn’s oeuvre from several perspectives. For this book, the collection of the revised versions of their talks has been supplemented by the papers of other scholars who were unable to attend the symposium itself. Thus this volume contains contribution…Read more
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15Coleridge's Contemplative PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2020.‘PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas’, as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge’s thought to be ‘the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers’. A theory of ideas emerges in critical engagement with thinkers including Plato, Plotinus, Böhme, Kant, and Schelling. A commitment to the transcendence of reason, central to what he calls ‘the spiritual platonic old England’, distinguishes him from …Read more
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6Coleridge and Contemplation (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.A collection of essays on Coleridge's mature philosophy written by philosophers, intellectual historians, and leading literary authorities on Coleridge.
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90S. T. Coleridge and the Transcendence of ReasonHeythrop Journal 63 (3): 349-366. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 349-366, May 2022.
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23Samuel Taylor Coleridge on ideas actualized in historyIntellectual History Review 29 (3): 489-514. 2019.Situating Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s thought on historically actualized ideas with reference to a range of classical thinkers, this article examines his intriguing philosophical theory about how ideas become progressively actualized in history. This cultural growth can be understood as contemplation-in-action, although it occurs through mainly fumbling – or else overenthusiastic – human agents. I distinguish Coleridgean first-order, transcendent ideas (such as God, infinity, the good, the soul) f…Read more
Peter Cheyne
Shimane University
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