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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning

- William Blake and Geometry
Af: Andrew M. Cooper Engelsk Hardback

A Bastard Kind of Reasoning

- William Blake and Geometry
Af: Andrew M. Cooper Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 340
ISBN-13: 9781438493220
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1438493223
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2023
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2023
Forfatter(e): Andrew M. Cooper
Forfatter(e) Andrew M. Cooper


Kategori Filosofi: metafysik og ontologi


ISBN-13 9781438493220


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 340


Udgave


Længde 24mm


Bredde 237mm


Højde 160mm


Udg. Dato 1 maj 2023


Oplagsdato 1 maj 2023


Forlag State University of New York Press

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