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Gothic Metaphysics - From Alchemy to the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Gothic Metaphysics - From Alchemy to the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
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Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred
criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern
dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the
role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space for a
worldview familiar to certain mystical traditions - such as
alchemy, which held to the view of a living cosmos yet later deemed
'uncanny' and anachronistic by Freud. In developing this idea,
Gothic Metaphysics explores the influence of the Middle Ages on the
emergence of Gothic, seeing it as an encrypted genre that serves as
the site of a 'live burial' of 'animism', which has emerged in the
notion of 'quantum entanglement' best described by Carl G. Jung and
physicist Wolfgang Pauli in the theory of synchronicity linking
alchemy with quantum mechanics. This relationship finds itself in
dialogue with the Gothic's long-held concern for the 'sentience of
space and place', as described by renowned Gothic scholar Fredrick
Frank. The volume Gothic Metaphysics is multi-valent and explores
how Gothic has sustained the view of a sentient world despite the
disqualification of nature - not only in respect to the extirpation
of animism as a worldview, but also with regard to an affirmation
of consciousness beyond that of human exceptionalism.
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