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(scyther5/Getty Images) For those in search of a politics defined by more than material concerns, Coleridge is an indispensable guide.
Earlier this week,
Aeon published a fantastic essay by the scholar Peter Cheyne about Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered as a philosopher. Coleridge is one of those historical figures who looks a lot different when viewed through the eyes of posterity than he did to his contemporaries. We remember him now mostly as a young, opium-addled poet of wild-eyed genius the author of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” But he spent more of his public life as a philosopher and a political thinker than he did as a poet. His two seminal political works,