Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Or, System Of Universal Knowledge; On A Methodical Plan Projected By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Second Edition, Revised. First Division. Pure Sciences. Moral And Metaphysical Philosophy
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Edition: 2nd ed., rev.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: front board nearly detach; binding fragile;
At the intersection of visionary ambition and systematic erudition stands the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, one of the most extraordinary intellectual enterprises of the nineteenth century — a grand attempt to organise the totality of human knowledge not alphabetically, as its rivals did, but according to a rigorous methodical plan conceived by the poet-philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This revised second edition presents the First Division on Pure Sciences, focusing with particular depth on Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, guiding the reader through the foundational principles of ethics, mind, and existence in a manner that reflects Coleridge's uniquely synthetic vision — one that sought to reconcile the empirical traditions of British thought with the transcendental currents flowing from German idealism. The work stands as a monument to Romantic-era intellectual ambition, illustrating Coleridge's belief that true knowledge must be understood as an organic, interconnected whole rather than a mere catalogue of isolated facts. Published by Richard Griffin and Company of London and Glasgow — Publishers to the University of Glasgow — this 1854 edition carries the authority of a scholarly institution and the passion of a poet who dared to reimagine the very architecture of knowledge itself. For the historian of ideas, the philosopher, or the lover of rare books, this volume asks a question that still resonates: what would it mean to truly map the full compass of the human mind?
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Format: Hardback
Published: 1854, Richard Griffin and Company, Glasgow
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 2nd ed., rev.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: front board nearly detach; binding fragile;
At the intersection of visionary ambition and systematic erudition stands the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, one of the most extraordinary intellectual enterprises of the nineteenth century — a grand attempt to organise the totality of human knowledge not alphabetically, as its rivals did, but according to a rigorous methodical plan conceived by the poet-philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This revised second edition presents the First Division on Pure Sciences, focusing with particular depth on Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, guiding the reader through the foundational principles of ethics, mind, and existence in a manner that reflects Coleridge's uniquely synthetic vision — one that sought to reconcile the empirical traditions of British thought with the transcendental currents flowing from German idealism. The work stands as a monument to Romantic-era intellectual ambition, illustrating Coleridge's belief that true knowledge must be understood as an organic, interconnected whole rather than a mere catalogue of isolated facts. Published by Richard Griffin and Company of London and Glasgow — Publishers to the University of Glasgow — this 1854 edition carries the authority of a scholarly institution and the passion of a poet who dared to reimagine the very architecture of knowledge itself. For the historian of ideas, the philosopher, or the lover of rare books, this volume asks a question that still resonates: what would it mean to truly map the full compass of the human mind?