{"product_id":"9783030888879","title":"Blake and Lucretius : The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood (The New Antiquity) (1st ed. 2021. 2021. x, 266 S. X, 266 p. 210 mm)","description":"This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' \u003ci\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake's work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake's philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake's mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework.\n \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Francis Bacon.- Chapter 3: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Isaac Newton.- Chapter 4: \u003ci\u003eSimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e and the Selfhood.- Chapter 5: Urizenic \u003ci\u003ePhantasiae.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 6: The Cosmic Chains of the \u003ci\u003eMachina Mundi.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoshua Schouten de Jel\u003c\/b\u003e is a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of articles on William Blake, Mary Shelley, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49811968983288,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":215.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9783030888879","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}