Beyond Enchantment: German Idealism & English Romantic Poetry. Mark Kipperman.

Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Islamicist of the twentieth century, Henry Corbin is also the subject of much criticism, aimed primarily at his supposed overemphasis on the mythological aspects of Islamic philosophy and his idiosyncratic privileging of the concept of the imaginal world. Taking seriously an unusual claim made by Steven Wasserstrom in Religion after Religion that the redeployment of Schelling's concept of tautegory by Corbin reveals all that is wrong with his work, this essay seeks to defend both the concept and Corbin's use of it. Developed by Schelling in his late work on mythology, the concept of tautegory turns out to be, for historical and theoretical reasons, a revelatory switch point. Not only does it make clear why the imaginal ‘locus’ is key to understanding the unity of God – the oneness of his apophatic and revealed dimensions – it also gives us profound insights into the links connecting Islamic philosophy, German Idealism, and psychoanalysis, which all take their bearings from the esoteric or mystical idea of an unconscious abyss.

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: One Foot in Eden: Modes of Pastoral in Romantic Poetry. . Lore Metzger.

Nineteenth-Century Literature ◽

10.1525/ncl.1988.42.4.99p0134y ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 493-495

Author(s):

Herbert Lindenberger

Keyword(s):

Romantic Poetry

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: The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry. . Susan J. Wolfson.

Nineteenth-Century Literature ◽

10.1525/ncl.1987.42.3.99p0118w ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 42 (3) ◽

pp. 376-379

Author(s):

Stuart M. Sperry

Keyword(s):

Romantic Poetry

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War in Social Thought

10.23943/princeton/9780691150840.001.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hans Joas ◽

Wolfgang Knöbl

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Large Scale ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

German Idealism ◽

Social Thought ◽

Social Progress ◽

Modern World ◽

Critical History ◽

Original Argument

This book provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Thomas Hobbes to the present. It presents both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as it traces the development of thinking about war over more than 350 years—from the premodern era to the period of German idealism and the Scottish and French enlightenments, and then from the birth of sociology in the nineteenth century through the twentieth century. While focusing on social thought, the book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrate the profound difficulties most social thinkers—including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the first sociologists—had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war, the most obvious form of large-scale social violence. With only a few exceptions, these thinkers, who believed deeply in social progress, were unable to account for war because they regarded it as marginal or archaic, and on the verge of disappearing. This overly optimistic picture of the modern world persisted in social theory even in the twentieth century, as most sociologists and social theorists either ignored war and violence in their theoretical work or tried to explain it away. The failure of the social sciences and especially sociology to understand war, the book argues, must be seen as one of the greatest weaknesses of disciplines that claim to give a convincing diagnosis of our times.

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