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Through the looking-glass: Coleridge and post-Kantian philosophy

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From: Comparative Literature
Date: 19991001
Author:Milnes, Tim

Introduction

In conversation with Henry Nelson Coleridge in 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge offered the following assessment of his philosophical achievements:

My system is the only attempt that I know of ever made to reduce all knowledges into harmony; it opposes no other system, but shows what was true in each, and how that which was true in the particular in each of them became error because it was only half the truth. I have endeavoured to unite the insulated fragments of truth and frame a perfect mirror. (Table Talk 1:248)

This is a revealing statement, and not the least so because of ...

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