{"product_id":"redemption-in-poetry-and-philosophy-9781602587809","title":"Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Simon Haines\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. \u003ci\u003eRedemption in Poetry and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. \u003ci\u003eRedemption in Poetry and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46444710363287,"sku":"9781602587809","price":6347.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781602587809.webp?v=1769131500","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/redemption-in-poetry-and-philosophy-9781602587809","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}