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Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 340 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 653 g, 26 Figures; 4 Illustrations, color
  • Serija: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 1438493223
  • ISBN-13: 9781438493220
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 340 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 653 g, 26 Figures; 4 Illustrations, color
  • Serija: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 1438493223
  • ISBN-13: 9781438493220
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Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake's geometry—the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres. In this illuminating, inventive new study, Andrew M. Cooper reveals Blake to be the vehicle of a single imaginative vision in which art, literature, physics, and metaphysics stand united. Romantic-period physics was not, as others have assumed, materialist. Blake's cosmology forms part of his age's deep reevaluation of body and soul, of matter and Heaven, and even probes what it is to understand understanding, reason, and substance. Far from being anti-Newtonian, Blake was prophetically post-Newtonian. His poetry and art realized the revolutionary potential of Enlightened natural philosophy even as that philosophy still needed an Einstein for its physics to snap fully into focus. Blake's mythmaking exploits the imaginative reach of formal abstractions to generate a model of how sensation imparts physical extension to the world. More striking still, Cooper shows how Blake's art of vision leads us today to visualize four-dimensional concepts of space, time, and Man for ourselves.

Recenzijos

"Andrew Cooper's brilliant and unorthodox book incorporates Blake's cosmology into an intellectual history of relativity theory that extends from Plato to Alfred North Whitehead. Amply demonstrating his superb command of Blake's entire body of poetry and prose (along with a good cross-section of his visual art), Cooper offers a valuable new paradigm for making sense of a visionary cosmology that often seems fanciful or obscure even to serious readers." Noah Heringman, author of Deep Time: A Literary History

Daugiau informacijos

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction Geometry and Blake's Newton Print 1(16)
Chapter 1 "Oh, but you're just analogizing ..."
17(28)
Chapter 2 Learning to Read in a Force Field: Songs of Innocence, Hartleyan Psychology, and the Physics of R. J. Boscovich
45(40)
Chapter 3 The Book of Urizen as a Vortex of Perception
85(20)
Chapter 4 A Brief Particular History of the Fourth Dimension of Space, with Special Reference to Milton: A Poem
105(42)
Chapter 5 The Neoplatonism of Blake's Mundane Soul
147(48)
Chapter 6 Berkeley: Very Close, but No Cigar
195(24)
Conclusion The Unified Space-Time of The Vision of the Last Judgment 219(18)
Notes 237(60)
Works Cited 297(14)
Index 311
Now retired, Andrew M. Cooper previously taught in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of William Blake and the Productions of Time and Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry.