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This chapter examines Coleridge’s engagements with Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling in order to contextualise his engagement with these figures in Biographia. It illustrates how Coleridge uses all three thinkers treatments of the subject-object distinction as foils for his own account of the imagination. This is then used as the basis for the comparison with Husserl’s account of intentionality, utilising Coleridge’s critical commentary on German sources gathered in his Collected Marginalia. These include Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Fichte’s The Science of Logic and Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism, all of which inform the approach that emerges in Biographia. Contrary to the common assumption that Coleridge’s engagements with German philosophy are derivative, what these marginal commentaries demonstrate is the emergence of a distinctive phenomenological account of subjective interaction with the world that shares many key features with Husserlian intentionality.
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Marshall, T. (2020). Coleridge’s Phenomenological Engagements with Idealism. In: Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52730-3_3
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