Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor Hardco

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Cosmic Connections by Charles Taylor Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosmic orders depleted, artists groped to articulate new meanings by bringing connections to life rather than merely reasoning abstractly about life. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylors 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cosmic Connections continues Taylors exploration of Romantic and post-Romantic responses to disenchantment and innovations in language. Reacting to the fall of cosmic orders that were at once metaphysical and moral, the Romantics used the symbols and music of poetry to recover contact with reality beyond fragmented existence. They sought to overcome disenchantment and groped toward a new meaning of life. Their accomplishments have been extended by post-Romantic generations into the present day. Taylors magisterial work takes us from Hölderlin, Novalis, Keats, and Shelley to Hopkins, Rilke, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, and on to Eliot, Miosz, and beyond. In seeking deeper understanding and a different orientation to life, the language of poetry is not merely a pleasurable presentation of doctrines already elaborated elsewhere. Rather, Taylor insists, poetry persuades us through the experience of connection. The resulting conviction is very different from that gained through the force of argument. By its very nature, poetrys reasoning will often be incomplete, tentative, and enigmatic. But at the same time, its insight is too moving-too obviously true-to be ignored. Author Biography Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal, Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age, he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada. Review A wonderful demonstration of the power of literature to make us think and feel. -- Adam Kirsch * New York Review of Books *An immensely ambitious book…an extraordinarily original, ambitious, and erudite effort to excavate the roots of Romanticism and place it in a new and vital relation with the rest of Western (and not solely Western) culture…a cosmic achievement. -- George Scialabba * Commonweal *Ostensibly a study of Romantic poetry and music, [this book] is about nothing less than modern life and its discontents, and how we might transcend them. -- Adam Gopnik * New Yorker *Monumental…the whole work is nothing if not tantalizing. On page after page are telling phrases and casually dropped insights, reminding us of Taylors intellection freshness and penetration…a book of spacious horizons, deep insight, [and] characteristically generous engagement. -- Rowan Williams * First Things *A grand statement of his lifelong conviction that words are not counters for the exchange of information but are valuable only when they express and shape what we mean and what we value. They should connect us to one another, if not perhaps to the cosmos. Cosmic Connections appears just as gloom is mounting about the commercialized automation of writing, the degradation of political language, and the disintegration of social cohesion. It invites us to consider these pressing evils as connected and to resist them by drawing upon literature to refresh our own speech. -- Michael Ledger-Lomas * Literary Review of Canada *Taylor is a perceptive reader of his poets, and he offers a wonderful synthesis of how poets from the Romantics onward have sought to overcome the disenchanted vision of reality…he calls our attention to a way of understanding the Romantic age that makes it appear lively, salient, and worthy of the readers contemplation. -- James Matthew Wilson * National Review *Taylor shows how…poetry…puts readers in contact with experiences of divine harmony, of supernatural order, of a joy which is the direct result of a situated haecceity, which is to say, of the thisness of poetic experience…[this book] dares to treat poetic language as a unique category of communication unto itself that is as distinct as it is elusive to the understanding. -- Matthew Hunter * Chronicle of Higher Education *[Taylors] working theory seems to be that he has found in the poetics of cosmic connection a deep sense of significance, and he wants for us to find it too. Despite the different underlying stories, the endlessly diverging and never resolving meanings and symbols and significations, he finds that poetry still calls to him, still makes claims on him that are definite in their effect if not in their propositional content. Why should that be the case, for him or for anyone else? What is it that keeps drawing us back to these wells? This book is his answer. -- Jeff Reimer * The Bulwark *A return to form for Taylor…a worthy milestone in an extraordinary career. -- Stevan Veljkovic * European Journal of Social Theory *At once a meticulously precise examination of Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and, more ambitiously, an urgent call for what we might refer to as poetic realism. -- Tara Isabella Burton * The Dispatch *Demonstrates awe-inspiring range and a fundamental belief in the power of art…a broad-ranging, occasionally startling, and often moving book…beautifully argued [and] lovingly rendered. -- Mischa Willett * Gospel Coalition *A labor of love…a worthy swan song. -- Matt McManus * Christian Socialism * Details ISBN0674296087 Author Charles Taylor Publisher Harvard University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780674296084 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-21 Subtitle Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2024-05-21 Pages 496 ISBN-10 0674296087 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass DEWEY 809.1033 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly UK Release Date 2024-05-21 AU Release Date 2024-09-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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