Blake and Lucretius : the atomistic materialism of the selfhood / Joshua Schouten de Jel.
Schouten de Jel, Joshua, author.
2021
PR4148.P5 S36 2021
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Title Blake and Lucretius : the atomistic materialism of the selfhood / Joshua Schouten de Jel.
Author Schouten de Jel, Joshua, author.
ISBN 9783030888886 (electronic bk.)
3030888886 (electronic bk.)
9783030888879
3030888878
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88888-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-88888-6 doi
Call Number PR4148.P5 S36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 821/.7
Summary 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 Blakes work: to clarify the classical stream of Blakes 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 Blakes 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. Joshua Schouten de Jel is a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of articles on William Blake, Mary Shelley, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series New antiquity.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Francis Bacon
Chapter 3: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Isaac Newton
Chapter 4: Simulacra and the Selfhood
Chapter 5: Urizenic Phantasiae
Chapter 6: The Cosmic Chains of the Machina Mundi.

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