Peter Cheyne

Last Updated :2026/06/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
E-mail
cheynehiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction

Currently working on philosophical and interdisciplinary projects on (1) expressions of transcendence through epiphanies or mystical experience in 20th- and 21st-century literature and philosophy (2) the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection; (3) the philosophical development of theories of life and matter, 1650–1850; (4) the thought of S. T. Coleridge.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Durham
  • University of Kent
  • Durham University

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Philosophy;Religious studies
  • Humanities;Art studies;Aesthetics and studies on art
  • Humanities;Philosophy;History of thought
  • Humanities;Literature;Literature in English

Research Keywords

  • S. T. Coleridge, British romanticism, aesthetics of imperfection, Bob Dylan, American transcendentalism, R.W. Emerson, John Muir, mystical experience, philosophy of rhythm

Affiliated Academic Societies

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, CommunicationIＡ
  2. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIＡ
  3. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, A History of English Literature A
  4. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, A History of English Literature B
  5. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Lecture on Literatures in English
  6. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, English Conversation II
  7. 2026, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
  8. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
  9. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  10. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on Literary Criticism on Literature in English A
  11. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on Literary Criticism on Literature in English B
  12. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Fiction in English A
  13. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Fiction in English B
  14. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Seminar on Studies of Fiction in English A
  15. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Seminar on Studies of Fiction in English B
  16. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Seminar on Poetry in English A
  17. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Seminar on Poetry in English B
  18. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Research
  19. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
  20. 2026, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Special Research
  21. 2026, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Research

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Owen Ware. Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature. Oxford University Press, 2025., Journal of the History of Philosophy, 64(3), 512-514, 202607
  2. Reconsidering Primary Imagination: The Poetics of Ordinary Life in Coleridge, Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature, 70, 42-62, 202603
  3. Bloody Speck: How S. T. Coleridge Turned the Embryological Punctum Saliens into a Metaphysical Principle, International Archives of the History of Ideas, 253, 202506
  4. Introduction to Dynamical Idealists on Matter and Life, International Archives of the History of Ideas, 253, 202506
  5. Emerson's Transparent Eyeball, a Genealogy, Emerson's Affinities, 2025
  6. Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists, Science of Sensibility: Reading Burkes Philosophical Enquiry, 2025
  7. Review: Chris Townsend. George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022., Berkeley Studies, 31, 29-38, 202501
  8. Review: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Tom Marshall, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 11(1-2), 199-203, 20240702
  9. Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this, British Journal of Aesthetics, 64, 20240601
  10. The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan (review), Philosophy and Literature, 48(1), 254-257, 202404
  11. S. T. Coleridge, Becoming Prayer: A 250th Anniversary Celebration and Reflection, The Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 7(1), 26-43, 202304
  12. The Amended Version ‘Coleridge’s Cosmic Sense of Ideas’, Studies in English Literature, Regional Branches Combined Issue, 16, 307-316, 2023
  13. Coleridge's Cosmic Sense of Ideas, The Coleridge Bulletin, 60, 30-37, 202212
  14. S. T. Coleridge and the Transcendence of Reason, HEYTHROP JOURNAL, 63(3), 349-366, 202205
  15. Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life, Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life, 2022
  16. Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion: The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism, RELIGION & LITERATURE, 53(2), 153-155, 202106
  17. Aesthetic Contemplation: Between the Swallows and the Shrine, Japan Mission Journal, 75, 3-8, 2021
  18. The Divided Line: Lower and Higher, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  19. The Way Down and the Way Up, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  20. The Blind that Gaze, the Blind that Creep Back, Shades that Flit, and the Dragon, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  21. The Coleridgean Idea, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  22. The Energic–Energetic Distinction and Coleridge’s Two-Level Theory of Mind, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  23. The ‘Sense’ of Knowledge, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  24. Adapting Böhme’s Bipolar Model, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  25. The Art of Poetic Life-Writing, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  26. Contemplative Practice and the Ideas, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  27. Aesthetic Contemplation, Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  28. Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy, 2020
  29. Developing Polarity: Trichotomy, Tetractys, and Pentad, 267-293, 202001
  30. Religious Experience, Imagination, and Interpretation: A Case Study, Journal of Scottish Thought, 10, 26-51, 201902
  31. Encoded and Embodied Rhythm, The Philosophy of Rhythm, 2019
  32. The Philosophy of Rhythm, The Philosophy of Rhythm, 2019
  33. Coleridge on Ideas Actualized in History, Intellectual History Review, 29(3), 489-514, 201901
  34. [rec. to] Coleridge and Contemplation. Peter Cheyne editor, Le Simplegadi, 239-247, 201811
  35. Coleridge and contemplation, Coleridge and Contemplation, 1-332, 20170101
  36. Coleridge’s ‘order of the mental powers’ and the energic–energetic distinction, Coleridge and Contemplation, 171-192, 20170101
  37. Introduction, Coleridge and Contemplation, 1-16, 20170101
  38. S. T. Coleridge and the Varieties of Contemplation, Journal of Romanticism (Special Issue: Romanticism & Mysticism), 1(1), 53-84, 2016
  39. Materials Development for a Japanese University CLIL Class, English Language Teaching World Online, Special Edition on CLIL, 50pp, 201504
  40. The Art of Poetic Life-Writing, The Coleridge Bulletin, 44, 77-88, 201412
  41. A Coleridgean Account of Meditative Experience, Journal of Philosophy of Life, 3(1), 44-67, 2013
  42. The Romanticized Plato, Comparative Culture, 16, 92-155, 2011
  43. The Coleridgean Imagination: its Role in Thought and its Relation to Reason’, Comparative Culture, 15, 39-62, 2010
  44. Sartre on the Relation between Consciousness and the Ego, Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, 37(2), 559-619, 200509
  45. ‘The Existential Relation of Mood and Self in Heidegger’s Being and Time, Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, 36(3), 687-730, 200412
  46. The Existential Relation of Mood and Self in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death, Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, 36(1), 187-226, 200406

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature, 2025/09, Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature