| Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination Contributor(s): Haines, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1602587795 ISBN-13: 9781602587793 Publisher: Baylor University Press OUR PRICE: $54.44 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| LCCN: 2012043663 |
| Series: Making of the Christian Imagination |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.36" W x 9.26" (1.32 lbs) 269 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |