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Exorbitant Enlightenment - Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations (Hardcover)
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Exorbitant Enlightenment - Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations (Hardcover)
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Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book
reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German
relations, many of which are so radical so exorbitant that they ask
us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and
intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and
Romanticism. Regier presents two of the great, untold stories of
the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten
Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700
and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story:
about a group of idiosyncratic figures and institutions, including
the Moravians in 1750s London, Henry Fuseli, and Johann Caspar
Lavater, as well as the two most exorbitant figures, William Blake
and Johann Georg Hamann. The books eight chapters show how these
authors and institutions shake up common understandings of British
literary and European intellectual history and offer a very
different, much more counter-intuitive view of the period. Through
their distinctive conceptions of language, Blake and Hamann
articulate in different yet deeply related ways a radical critique
of instrumental thought and institutional religion. They also argue
for the irreducible relation between language and the sexual body.
In each case, they push against some of the most central cultural
and philosophical assumptions, then and now. The book argues that,
when taken seriously, these exorbitant figures allow us to uncover
and revise some of our own critical orthodoxies.
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