Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Quotations from MSS Introduction PART I: COLERIDGE AND SPINOZA Silence and the Pantheistic Sublime in Coleridge's Early Poetry Spinoza and the Problem of the Infinite The Providential Wreck: Coleridge and Spinoza's Metaphysics PART II: COLERIDGE AND THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY Understanding the Pantheism Controversy Reading under a Warp: Coleridge and Jacobi's Transformations of 'Reason' Coleridge, Mendelssohn and the Defence of Reason Coleridge and Schelling: The Seductions of Ideal Pantheism PART III: THE PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY IN COLERIDGE'S LATER THOUGHT The Anxiety of Pantheism: Hidden Dimensions of Coleridge's Transcendental Deduction Coleridge's Trinity: The Defence of Immanence Reason, Understanding and Truth Bibliography Notes Index

About the Author

RICHARD BERKELEY completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature at the Australian National University as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is currently reading law at the University of Otago Law School, New Zealand, and is Assistant Master of Knox College, University of Otago.