The Romantic Legacy

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16 - The Romantic Legacy

Participation as Reciprocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2024

Douglas Hedley

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Douglas Hedley and

Daniel J. Tolan

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Douglas Hedley: Affiliation:
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Daniel J. Tolan: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

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The dreamlike mood dramatically invoked by Wordsworth in ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’ is the contemplation of the intelligible universe by the ascent of the soul as nous eron, fuelled by joy. Such a philosophical, poetic and sacred enterprise is evidently indebted to the Platonic vision. The Platonic inheritance of Wordsworth or Baudelaire requires scant justification. Yet if one looks at the terminology of the philosophers, it might be inferred that the concept of ‘participation’ had already disappeared drastically from the Western philosophical canon. A cursory glance through the indices of some of the major works of philosophy in the last century will fail to produce many instances of the term.

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Information: Participation in the Divine
A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era
, pp. 343 - 363

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009440028.018 [Opens in a new window]

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