Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'
Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.
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Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'
Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.
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Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'

Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'

by S. Webster
Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'

Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What is Life?'

by S. Webster

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Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230545229
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/18/2009
Series: Health, Technology and Society
Edition description: 2013
Pages: 314
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

SUZANNE E. WEBSTER is an Assistant Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA, where she teaches British Romanticism and other courses in British literature. Supported by a British Academy Postgraduate Studentship, she gained her MPhil and DPhil degrees in English Literature from the University of Oxford, UK. In 1999, a Thouron Scholarship enabled her to study and teach English at the University of Pennsylvania; and she has lived and worked in the USA ever since.

Table of Contents

List of Diagrams xi

Acknowledgements xii

Abbreviations xvi

Notes on the Text xix

Introduction xxiii

1 Coleridge in Limbo: Competing Views on Body and Soul 1

What is Life? 1

Debate, and a Theory 1

Coleridge and Naturphilosophie: Agreements and Benefits, and Beyond 5

Establishing Relationships: Nature, Man, and God 9

Establishing Relationships: Life and Mind, Body and Soul 14

Landing-Place 1 17

Coleridge, Greek Philosophy, and the Body/Soul Relationship 19

Coleridge, Plato, and Ideal Body/Soul Dynamics 20

Body and Soul: 'Real' Platonic Relations on Earth 22

The Post-Mortem Soul: A Difficult Loss 23

The Post-Mortem Soul: the Means to the Ideal End 28

Contextualising Plato: Religion and Philosophy 29

Landing-Place 2 31

The Traditional Hebraic Human: Coleridge's Negative Response 32

The Hebraic Body and its 'Life-Element' 32

The Hebraic Paradigm: How Much Did Coleridge Know? 34

Genesis 2.7 37

'The Thoughts of the Sacred Penmen' 42

The Hebraic 'Future State' 46

'Solutions' to the Hebraic Paradigm 48

Landing-Place 3 50

Life and Mind: Adapting Dualistic Inclinations 51

A New Paradigm: The Boundaries 51

Reasons for Re-evaluation 52

Consequences of Re-evaluation 1: Two Types of Life 56

Consequences of Re-evaluation 2: Two Types of Mind 57

Consequences of Re-evaluation 3: The Triple Ichheit 58

Landing-Place 4 64

2 Indecisive Reflections: Body, Soul, and Pauline Theology 67

Coleridge and St Paul 68

The Pauline Body: Romans 7.24 71

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Contexts 71

Coleridgean Contexts 1 Mesmerising Possibilities 73

Coleridgean Contexts 2 The Plight of the Sage 78

Coleridgean Contexts 3 The Sensual Body on Earth 80

Coleridgean Contexts 4 The Fate of the Sage 83

Coleridgean Contexts 5 The Sensual Body After Death; or, A Fear of 'The inevitable Rebound of the I am' 86

Landing-Place 1 94

The Pauline Flesh 96

Defying Definition 96

Coleridge, 'The Flesh', and Romans 7.24 99

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Landing-Place 2 110

3 The Crux of the Dilemma: The Incarnation, Humanity, and 'Obnoxious Body' of Christ 112

Human Nature and The Son of God 114

The Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Two Natures of Christ 114

Christ's 'Being In-carnate' 115

The Problem of 'the Sinful Flesh' 118

Christ the Redeemer: His 'Likeness' to Earthly Men 121

A Question of 'Likeness' 121

The 'True Identity' 129

The Parallel Concept, or 'mystic Duplicity' 132

Parallel Concepts of Jesus' Body and Soul in Historical Context 134

Coleridge and Edward Irving 134

The 'Condition of the Creature' 136

Christ's Human Nature 138

The Attack, and Irving's Defence 140

Landing-Place 1 141

'Obnoxious' Implications: Coleridge and Irving on Christ's Human Nature 143

Dangerous Misreading 143

Mitigating Features 145

'Preserve Undiminished the Proper Glory' 146

Coleridge's Oscillations 148

Landing-Place 2 155

Fearful Prospects: The Consequences of Uncertainty 156

4 Resurrection: the Role of the 'Natural Body' 162

Our 'Future Stale' 162

Post-Mortem Human; Post-Mortem Man 164

Personal Identity: Revived or Remade? 167

Continuous Conundra 172

The (Post-Mortem) Spiritual Body 173

An Option or A 'Must'?: Pauline Positions-and Swedenborgian Suggestions 173

Swedenborg's Substantial Thoughts 177

Sensible Dilemma 1: To Be, or Not To Be? 183

Sensible Dilemma 2: Mind the Gap? 186

A Gap between the Bodies: the Ultimate Reason Why 189

Landing-Place 1 191

The Natural Body: Future Roles? 192

Setting the Stage 192

A Short Act 194

Sustenance for The Interval 196

The Villain 202

The Continued Presence of the Natural Body: Implications for 'Soul' and the 'Spiritual Man' 204

Re-call and Regroup: Corinthian Callings 204

Seek Other Objects 208

Ideal Objects, Here and Now 211

Here and Now: Seek and Ye Shall Find-or Fleshly Thwartings 213

Fleshly Thwartings: The Personal Angle 218

Ideal Objects, There and Then: Seek and Ye Shall Find? 220

The Step Missed: Losing the Heavenly Object, or Natural Body beyond the Gap 222

Conclusions 224

A Scheme of Life 224

Anticipating Loss 226

Appendix A Understanding 229

Appendix B The Triple Ichheit: Threefold 'I'-ness in the Human Being on Earth (the 'natural or psychical Man') 231

Endnotes 232

Bibliography 281

Index 293

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