{"product_id":"blake-and-lucretius-joshua-schouten-de-jel-9783030888879","title":"Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Schouten de Jel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030888878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030888879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d","brand":"Joshua Schouten de Jel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992698814719,"sku":"9783030888879","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6ad472f-9b3c-4338-94a7-194d48b86b42.jpg?v=1683320288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blake-and-lucretius-joshua-schouten-de-jel-9783030888879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}