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TOK Conference 2014

TOK Conference 2014. Coleridge and the Romantic Imagination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrlL_MpTRo. pretend dream up invent unreality make-believe artifice. Romanticism. 1789 - 1832. Coleridge defined:. Fancy Primary Imagination Secondary Imagination. Fancy. Imagination.

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TOK Conference 2014

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  1. TOK Conference 2014 Coleridge and the Romantic Imagination

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrlL_MpTRo

  3. pretenddream upinventunrealitymake-believeartifice

  4. Romanticism 1789 - 1832

  5. Coleridge defined: • Fancy • Primary Imagination • Secondary Imagination

  6. Fancy

  7. Imagination

  8. The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

  9. IMAGINATION • living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception

  10. IMAGINATION • repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

  11. Eighteenth-century empiricism: • The mind as a tabula rasa • Perception is passive • Ideas are derived from sense impressions

  12. ‘Intimations of Immortality’by William Wordsworth Children are born: ‘trailing clouds of glory…’ BUT ‘shades of the prison-house begin to close…’

  13. A creative genius also has The Secondary Imagination: “an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

  14. The Gospel of St. John In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…

  15. T E Hulme Romanticism is: spilt religion (‘Romanticism and Classicism’ 1911)

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