Originally intended to introduce William Blake's major prophecies,
the late Karl Kroeber's Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early
Prophecies is an accessible and astute survey of the prophetic work
that Blake executed between 1788 and 1794. For Kroeber (1926-2009),
former Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University,
the post-secular era we are now entering should re-establish
Blake's central presence in academic literary humanism, which-in
its secular phase-has excluded Blake due to his radical
Christianity. Such exclusion, Kroeber notes, has not diminished
Blake's immense-and still growing-impact on popular culture and
concepts of individuality. In stark contrast to the idea of a
"universal heart" and to the ideal rational societies envisioned by
his contemporaries, Blake argued that each individual was
absolutely unique and that only social structures based not on
reason but on the imagination, like Golgonooza, the City of Art,
can realize and sustain the individual's innate divinity. 28 illus.
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