Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/08/2013
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
- ISBN:
- 9781602587793
- 9781602587793
- Category:
- Literary studies: poetry & poets
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-08-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Baylor University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 269
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x26mm
- Weight:
- 0.6kg
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