Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists

Peter Cheyne is professor in British literature and culture, Shimane University, Japan, visiting fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and visiting fellow in philosophy, University of Durham. He is the author of Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2020), editor of Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023) and Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford UP, 2017) and co-editor of The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (Oxford UP, 2020).

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Dynamical Idealists on Matter and Life (Cheyne).- Part 1. Chapter 2. ‘Wonderfully did this gifted Seer fly before his Age’: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jacob Böhme, and Naturphilosophie (Muratori and Vigus).- Chapter 3. Coleridge on Leibniz, Continuity, and the Hidden Life of the Self (Ketz).- Chapter 4. Plastic Nature from Cudworth to Shaftesbury and German Classical Idealist Philosophy (Wormald).- Chapter 5. Novalis’s Poetic Understanding of Nature in the Age of Romanticism (Hampton).- Part 2. Chapter 6. Mind and Matter in Hegel and Schelling (Rajan).- Chapter 7. Grasping a Living Nature: Schelling, Goethe and the Roots of Process Philosophy (Höfele).- Chapter 8. Schelling’s Principle of Life and the Unity of Mind and Nature (Ostaric).- Chapter 9. Living and Dead Forms: The Factuality of Meaning in Schelling and Other Naturalists (Whistler).- Chapter 10. Schelling and Coleridge’s Theories of Matter (Snow).- Chapter 11. The Ordure of Things: Coleridge, Schelling, and the Indivisible Remainder (Milnes).- Part 3. Chapter 12. The Limits of Analogy in Coleridge’s Philosophy of Nature (Azadpour).- Chapter 13. An ‘Alphabet of the Philosophy of physical Dynamics’: Coleridge’s Theory of the Metaphysical Foundations of Matter (Struwig).- Chapter 14. Coleridge and the Science of Life (Cooper).- Chapter 15. Bloody Speck: How S. T. Coleridge Turned the Embryological Punctum Saliens into a Metaphysical Principle (Cheyne).- Chapter 16. Matter, Will, and Human Life in Coleridge and Schopenhauer (Dushane).- Chapter 17. Life, Nature, and Race: Blumenbach’s Vital Materialism in Coleridge’s Later Writings (1818–28) (Page-Jones).- Chapter 18. Coleridge and Human Individuation: The Passions (Timár).- Chapter 19. Coleridge’s Poem ‘Human Life Contemplated on the Denial of Immortality’ (1811–15) (Mays).