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Augustine
Author_Simon Haines
Byron
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Goethe
Kant
Milton
Schleiermacher
Shelley
Wordsworth
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- ISBN 9781602587809
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Simon Haines is Professor and Chair of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
