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William Blake as natural philosopher, 1788-1795 /

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake's wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fletcher, Joe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction "We Who Are Philosophers": Blake's Early Metaphysics
  • Chapter One. A Sense of the Infinite: Leibniz, Hume and Panpsychism in the Early Tractates
  • The Case against Berkeley
  • Locke's Metaphysics
  • Locke and Leibniz on the Infinite
  • Hume and Blake against Natural Religion
  • Philosophical Designs
  • Chapter Two. Soul Matter: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Monist Pantheism
  • The Soul in Classical Philosophy
  • Plato's Ambiguous Dualism
  • Aristotle's Three Souls
  • The Stoics and Epicureans on the Soul's Materiality
  • Neoplatonic Anima
  • The Soul In Early Modern Philosophy
  • Paracelsus, Spinoza and Early Modern Pantheism
  • Materialism In Hobbes and Bacon
  • Descartes's Unambiguous Dualism
  • Newton, Locke and the Roots of Eighteenth-Century Deism
  • The Contested Soul in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
  • Priestley's "immaterial Materialism"
  • Priestley Vs. Swedenborg
  • Imagination Over Empiricism
  • From the Early Tractates to the Marriage
  • Chapter Three. Breathing Dust: Erasmus Darwin and Blake's Regenerative Materialism
  • The Botanic Garden and the "Transmigrating Ens"
  • The Book of Thel and the "Land Unknown"
  • Europe and the "Finite Wall of Flesh"
  • The Song of Los and Dualism's Dead Sun
  • Chapter Four. "Horrible Forms of Deformity": The Urizen Cycle and Vitalist Materialism
  • Urizen's Divisive Desire and "Activity Unknown"
  • Urizen's Newtonian "Globes of Attraction"
  • The "Red Globe of Life Blood" and Blake's Embryology
  • A Polypus Appears
  • Remembering Eternity
  • Coda: The Ghost of Pantheism
  • Bibliography
  • Index.