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Blake and Lucretius - The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Blake and Lucretius - The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: The New Antiquity
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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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