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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
‘Mortal blow’ against Spinoza
If Coleridge believed, as he wrote in Biographia Literaria, that Fichte had struck a ‘mortal blow’ against Spinoza, then Coleridge himself had struck another in the guise of the ancient mariner. By the time Coleridge had shot down the shibboleth of an external materialist realism, he was mentally prepared to leave the larval Spinozism, for the flight into German idealism. That his art had anticipated life was explained in Biographia Literaria. Coleridge must have been referring to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner when he explained how works of imagination open up spaces into which we have yet to grow, just as ‘the chrysalis of the horned fly’ leaves ‘room in its involucrum for antennae yet to come’.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Man-made to ready-made
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Evola and right thinking
Freedom is a kind of transcendence. The higher self should transcend the lower self and the state should encourage this impulse. This is the transcendence that results from a rising up out of the vegetative ‘One life’.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
As nominal head of the English government, William III of Orange fulfilled the longstanding aspiration of the invaders and collaborationists by chartering the Bank of England in 1694. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 2
Further additions to the project, starting with the Gosford Bridge to Buckingham leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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