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Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic (Paperback)
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Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic (Paperback)
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Blake's late prophecies, The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem,
feature a conflict between the poet-prophet Los and a Spectre
embodying all he most opposes: intellectual scepticism, religious
despair and a systematic philosophical logic of contraries, which
is for Blake an abstraction from, and negation of, his ideal of
'life'. In this 1991 book, Lorraine Clark traces the analogy
between Blake's Spectre and Soren Kierkegaard's concept of 'dread',
whose spirit of negation and irony he seeks to conquer, in both its
philosophical and aesthetic manifestations. Using Kierkegaard's
philosophy to illuminate Blake's prophecies, Lorraine Clark shows
these concepts to offer the basis for a profound critique both of
romanticism, as it has come to be identified with the spirit of
dialectic, and of the postmodern irony which it has spawned. Their
attempt to rescue an ideal of life from its abstraction within
idealist dialectics is itself deeply romantic, and offers a
dramatisation of tensions - between scepticism and affirmation,
religion and nihilism, philosophy and poetry - central to our
understanding of romanticism.
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