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The politics of matter: Newtonian science and Priestleyan metaphysics in Coleridge's “Preternatural Agency”

机译:物质政治:Coleridge的“ Preternatural Agency”中的牛顿科学和Priestleyan形而上学

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Coleridge's “Preternatural Agency,” a three hundred and sixty-one line verse contribution to Robert Southey's Jacobin epic Joan of Arc (1796), represents his earliest attempt at a poetics of the supernatural. This essay links “Preternatural Agency” with Coleridge's early Unitarian theology, metaphysics, and radical politics, which he was concerned to distinguish from atheistic expressions of political radicalism. The poem's argument for the existence of spirit agents that guide human affairs is particularly indebted to the Unitarian Joseph Priestley whose metaphysical treatise Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777) blurred conventional distinctions between materiality and immateriality, corporeal and spirit agency. Priestley's work in turn participated in a debate reaching back to the Interregnum regarding the nature of matter and the ontological connection between physical motion and political action. “Preternatural Agency” thus enters this debate as well and reveals that Coleridge's early interest in the supernatural is an expression of his engagement in the theologico-political discourse of Unitarian Dissent.
机译:科尔里奇的“ Preternatural Agency”(对罗伯特·索特西(Robert Southey)的雅各宾史诗《圣女贞德》(1796年)的三百六十一行诗作,代表了他最早的超自然诗意尝试。本文将“自然机构”与科尔里奇早期的一神论神学,形而上学和激进政治联系起来,他担心将其与政治激进主义的无神论表达区分开。这首诗中关于指导人类事务的精神行为者的论点尤其归功于一神论者约瑟夫·普里斯特利(Joseph Priestley),他的形而上学论文《物质与精神的论述》(1777年)模糊了物质性和非物质性,物质性和精神性代理之间的传统区分。 Priestley的工作反过来又参与了有关物质的性质以及肢体运动与政治行为之间的本体论联系的辩论,这种辩论可以追溯到Interregnum。因此,“超自然机构”也进入了这场辩论,并揭示了科尔里奇对超自然现象的早期兴趣是他参与一神论异议的神学-政治话语的一种表达。

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    《European Romantic Review》 |2008年第3期|219-232|共14页
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    George S. Erving;

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    Department of English, Humanities, and Honors, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA;

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