Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral LawCambridge University Press, 13 ott 1994 - 234 pagine 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. |
Sommario
Works or faith? | 3 |
Antinomianisms | 10 |
The ranting impulse | 22 |
The polite witnesses | 33 |
Radical dissent | 52 |
A peculiar people | 65 |
Antihegemony | 105 |
The Muggletonian archive | 115 |
Introductory | 125 |
The New Jerusalem church | 129 |
The Divine Image | 146 |
From innocence to experience | 162 |
London | 174 |
The Human Abstract | 195 |
Conclusion | 222 |
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Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law E. P. Thompson Anteprima non disponibile - 1993 |
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law E. P. Thompson Anteprima non disponibile - 1994 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law William Blake and the Moral Law |
| Autore | E. P. Thompson |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa, riveduta |
| Editore | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0521469775, 9780521469777 |
| Lunghezza | 234 pagine |
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