The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 8: Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy

During the winter of 1818-1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave fourteen lectures on the history of philosophy. A shorthand writer took down twelve of them in the most detailed version of Coleridge's lectures known to exist. The transcriptions are imperfect and inaccurate in various ways, but, when they are combined with Coleridge's own notes, as in this edition, the result is a coherent and largely complete whole.


The lectures contain Coleridge's interpretation of the history of philosophy. H...