Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife

By Charles I. Armstrong

Book Overview

Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalisation in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most profound ideas and poetry on its basis. Armstrong shows how the tenets and ideals of organicism - despite much criticism - remain an insistent, if ambivalent, backdrop for much of our current thought, including the work of Derrida amongst others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349509515
• ISBN13: 9781349509515
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"