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Ascent - Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Hardcover)
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Ascent - Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Hardcover)
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Paradise Lost has never received a substantial, book-length reading
by a philosopher. This, however should surprise no one, for Milton
himself despised philosophers. He associated philosophy with deceit
in his theological writings, and made philosophizing into one of
the activities of fallen angels in hell. Yet, in this book,
philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that Milton's
disdain for their vocation should not prevent philosophers from
turning an inquisitive eye to Paradise Lost. Because Milton's
greatest poem conducts a multilayered examination of puzzles that
intrigue philosophers, instead of neatly breaking from philosophy,
it maintains a penetrating rapport with it. Paradise Lost sets
forth bold claims regarding the meaning of genuine knowledge, or
acting meaningfully, or taking in the world fully, or successfully
withdrawing from inner deadness. Other topics touched upon by
Milton involve some of the most central issues within the
philosophy of religion: the relationship between reason and belief,
the uniqueness of religious poetry, the meaning of gratitude, and
the special role of the imagination in faith. This
tension-disparaging philosophy on the one hand, but taking up much
of what philosophers hope to understand on the other-turns Milton's
poem into an exceptionally potent work for a philosopher of
literature. Ascent is a philosophical reading of the poem that
attempts to keep audible Milton's anti-philosophy stance. The
picture of interdisciplinarity that emerges is, accordingly,
neither one of a happy percolation among fields ('philosophy',
'literature'), nor one of rigid boundaries. Overlap and partial
agreement clash against contestation and rivalry. It is these
conflicting currents which Ascent aims to capture, if not to
reconcile.
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