Opus Maximum
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The Opus Maximum was a set of philosophical manuscripts dictated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his friend and colleague, Dr Joseph Henry Green, between 1819 and 1823. It was not published in Coleridge's lifetime, finally emerging in the 20021 version edited by Thomas McFarland with the assistance of Nicholas Halmi. It is not entirely clear what form the book would have taken if Coleridge had published it. He died before he could assemble the various manuscripts and other notes into a publishable form, and the published volume contains four 'fragments' along with two appendixes and evidence of missing chapters. It should be read in conjunction with the separately published Logic, since that volume completes the transcendental deduction which lies at the heart of the enterprise. It was also intended to form part of a larger Magnum Opus or Logosophia, of which parts exist in various manuscripts. Mary Anne Perkins has set out the dimensions of that larger project in her Coleridge's Philosophy.
The Opus Maximum was a set of philosophical manuscripts dictated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his friend and colleague, Dr Joseph Henry Green, between 1819 and 1823. It was not published in Coleridge's lifetime, finally emerging in the 2002 version edited by Thomas McFarland with the assistance of Nicholas Halmi. It is not entirely clear what form the book would have taken if Coleridge had published it. He died before he could assemble the various manuscripts and other notes into a publishable form, and the published volume contains four 'fragments' along with two appendixes and evidence of missing chapters. It should be read in conjunction with the separately published Logic, since that volume completes the transcendental deduction which lies at the heart of the enterprise. It was also intended to form part of a larger Magnum Opus or Logosophia, of which parts exist in various manuscripts. Mary Anne Perkins has set out the dimensions of that larger project in her Coleridge's Philosophy. ==References==
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