Joseph Fletcher

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

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Produktbeschreibung

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake's wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781785279515
• ISBN-10: 1785279513
• Artikelnr.: 62122912

Autorenporträt

Joseph Fletcher is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Managing Editor of the William Blake Archive.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "We Who Are Philosophers": Blake's Early Metaphysics
Chapter One A Sense of the Infinite: Leibniz, Hume and Panpsychism in the Early Tractates
Chapter Two Soul Matter: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Monist Pantheism
Chapter Three Breathing Dust: Erasmus Darwin and Blake's Regenerative Materialism
Chapter Four "Horrible Forms of Deformity": The Urizen Cycle and Vitalist Materialism
Coda: The Ghost of Pantheism
Bibliography
Index.