Title Hopkins' idealism : philosophy, physics, poetry / Daniel Brown

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description xiv, 345 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Hopkins and Oxford -- 2. Introduction and Understanding -- 3. The 'idea in the mind' -- 4. Moral Philosophy -- 5. Reflexive Self-Consciousness -- 6. The Big Idea -- 7. Hopkins' Mechanistic Ontology -- 8. 'the flush and foredrawn' -- 9. Stress, Selves, and Subjectivity -- 10. Stress and Breath Summary The book offers radical rereadings not only of his metaphysics and theology, but also of his best-known poems The conventional picture of the young Hopkins as a conservative High-Church ritualist is starkly contested by this study which draws upon his unpublished Oxford essays on philosophy to reveal a boldly speculative intellectual liberal. Less concerned with Christian factionalism than with countering contemporary threats to faith itself, Hopkins' thought is seen to follow that of his teachers Benjamin Jowett and T.H. Green, who turned to Kant and Hegel to vouchsafe the grounds of Christian belief against contemporary scientism. Hopkins' personal metaphysic of 'inscape' and 'instress', which has long been recognized as crucial to the understanding of his poetry, is traced here to concepts derived from the 'British Idealism' he encountered at Oxford and the new energy physics of the 1850s and 1860s. By locating his thought at the intellectual avant-garde of his age, the striking modernity of his poetry need no longer be seen as an historical anomaly Notes Bibliography: p327-339. _ Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-339) and index Subject Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Knowledge -- Science Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Philosophy. Idealism in literature. Literature and science -- England -- History -- 19th century. Metaphysics in literature. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Philosophy in literature. Physics in literature. Author Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889. LC no. 96035164 ISBN 0198183534 (hardcover)

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