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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.
Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
1 Concepts, Metaphors, and Wordsworth
2 "Tintern Abbey"--Restoring the Soul
3 Spontaneity in Kant and Wordsworth
4 Wordsworth and Political Redemption I--Paradise
5 Wordsworth and Political Redemption II-- Paradise Lost
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index



