Witness against the Beast - E. P. Thompson

Witness against the Beast

William Blake and the Moral Law

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
284 Seiten
1994
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-46977-7 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
Originally appearing shortly after E. P. Thompson's death in 1993, and acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, Witness Against the Beast appears now for the first time in paperback. 'Everything characteristic of the late E. P. Thompson - his clarity, humanity, and breadth of learning - is present in this book.' Financial Times
E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion, and bearing the marks of Thompson's lifelong struggle against authoritarian and anti-humanitarian politics both at the level of the individual and of the state, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a profound enquiry into the structure of Blake's thought and the character of his sensibility. Its qualities are among those which place Thompson himself in the same tradition of dissenting values and non-conforming radicalism represented by Blake some two hundred years earlier.

Foreword Christopher Hill; Introduction; Part I. Inheritance: 1. Works or faith?; 2. Antinomianisms; 3. The 'Ranting' impulse; 4. The polite witness; 5. Radical dissent; 6. A peculiar people; 7. Anti-hegemony; Appendix 1. The Muggletonian archive; Appendix 2. William Blake's mother; Part II. Human Images: Introduction; 8. The new Jerusalem Church; 9. 'The Divine Image'; 10. From innocence to experience; 11. 'London'; 12. 'The Human Abstract'; 13. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.10.1994
Vorwort Christopher Hill
Zusatzinfo 20 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 214 mm
Gewicht 401 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-521-46977-5 / 0521469775
ISBN-13 978-0-521-46977-7 / 9780521469777
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