Armstrong Charles. Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 233 p. — ISBN10: 1349509515; ISBN13: 978-1349509515Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalisation in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most profound ideas and poetry on its basis. Armstrong shows how the tenets and ideals of organicism - despite much criticism - remain an insistent, if ambivalent, backdrop for much of our current thought, including the work of Derrida amongst others.First ArticulationsGerman Idealism and FrühromantikAbsolute Organicism in German Idealism: Kant, Fichte and Schelling
Prefaces to the New Gospel: Friedrich Schlegel and the FragmentEnglish RomanticismOrganic Vagaries: Coleridge’s Theoretical Work
Early Affinities: Friendship and Coleridge’s Conversation Poems
On the Threshold: Wordsworth’s Architectonics of the AbsoluteModern TheoryBalance and Extremity: A Comparison of Richards and Bataille
The Connections of Significance: Gadamer and the Vitality of Understanding
On the Double: Blanchot, Derrida and the Step Beyond
Ending the Automatic