Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies - Couverture souple

Kroeber, Karl

 
9781105900624: Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1105900622 ISBN 13 : 9781105900624
Editeur : Lulu.com, 2012

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
Lulu.com
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1105900622
ISBN 13 
9781105900624
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
Coordonnées du fabricant
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