期刊全称 | Blake and Lucretius | 期刊简称 | The Atomistic Materi | 影响因子2023 | Joshua Schouten de Jel | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Explores the Epicurean legacy in William Blake’s work.Shows that Blake was deeply influenced by Lucretian materialism.Offers new insights into the reception of Lucretius across Europe from the sevente | 学科分类 | The New Antiquity | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | 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.. | Pindex | Book 2021 |
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