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This study treats Coleridges thinking as an integral whole and follows in detail the chronological development of Coleridges quest. It begins with placing modern subjectivity within the history of the mirror metaphor, that here represents mysticism in the West from antiquity to modernity, then analyses Coleridges encounter with the metaphor and traces his lifelong engagement with it that culminates in the formation of the Pentad. It discusses his early poems and poetics, his reading and rewriting of Kant, his own transcendentalism seen in Biographia Literaria and Aids to Reflection. It them briefly compares Coleridges mirror metaphor with two contemporary mirror metaphors by Lacan and Rorty.
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