Blake and Lucretius
The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood
This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake’s work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake’s philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake’s mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework.
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Veröffentlichung: | 25.11.2022 |
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht | H 21 cm / B 14,8 cm / - |
Seiten | 266 |
Art des Mediums | Buch [Taschenbuch] |
Preis DE | EUR 106.99 |
Preis AT | EUR 109.99 |
Reihe | The New Antiquity |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-88890-9 |
ISBN-10 | 3030888908 |