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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Coleridge’s encounters with German idealism and Sara Hutchinson
The encounter which swept away the last vestiges of Spinozism from Coleridge’s worldview was his extramarital encounter with Sara Hutchinson, or Asra as he refashioned her name. Coleridge’s encounters with German idealism and Sara Hutchinson came in quick succession, the first in 1798, the second in 1799. It was the combination of philosophical idealism and extra-marital love that was incendiary, not the former in isolation, which Coleridge ultimately deemed to be inadequate because of its Spinozist polarity. Fichte came close, with his invitation to imagine the first encounter of two human beings, the summoning to a mutuality of experience, a ‘reciprocal interaction’. However, the result of encounter for Fichte was synthesis, a reduction of two to one, rather than the feminine principle of reflection, resulting in not one, or even two, but the three of fecund creativity.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Ancient Terror
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Love and creativity
The real and only meaningful opposition is between those whose banners bear the symbols of love and creativity and those devoid of love, life and humanity who would have us return to the One, the ‘amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being’.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Will is tangible in art, which cannot be considered in a purely formal sense, but must consist of a meaningful will working on material things. If a man or a people lacks this power of will, then they also lack the prerequisite to produce a great and truthful art. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 4
Further additions to the project, starting with the Newport Pagnell to Bedford leg of Ogilby's Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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