Budick, Sanford, Dividing Muse, The: Images Of Sacred Disjuntion In Milton's Poetr

The dividing muse: Images of sacred disjunction in Milton's poetry

Budick, Sanford

Literature & Fiction

Yale University Press

Midrash and Literature

Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature

Religion & Spirituality

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Judaism

Yale Univ Pr

This elegantly written book offers a new way to conceive of cultural tradition. The act of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomenon, Sanford Budick explains. He calls this dual phenomenon the cultural sublime, and he traces it in literary, artistic, and philosophical works from Homer to Freud.

The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime

History

World

Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant’s encounter with Milton’s poetry to the formation of Kant’s moral and aesthetic thought. Sanford Budick reveals the relation between a poetic vision and a philosophy that theorized what that poetry was doing. As Plato and Aristotle contemplate Homer, so Kant contemplates Milton. In all these cases philosophy and poetry allow us to better understand each other. Milton gave voice to the transformation of human understanding effected by the Protestant Revolt, making poetry of the idea that human reason is created self-sufficient. Kant turned that religiously inflected poetry into the richest modern philosophy. Milton’s bold self-reliance is Kant’s as well. Using lectures of Kant that have been published only in the past decade, Budick develops an account of Kant based on his lifelong absorption in the poetry of Milton, especially Paradise Lost. By bringing to bear the immense power of his reflections on aesthetic and moral form, Kant produced one of the most penetrating interpretations of Milton’s achievement that has ever been offered and, at the same time, reached new peaks in the development of aesthetics and moral reason.

Kant and Milton

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth: Light Out of Darkness

British & Irish

Edinburgh University Press

Hazarding All: Shakespeare and the Drama of Consciousness (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy)

Philosophers speak of newly accessed ways of knowing reality as epistemological shifts. This book demonstrates how Shakespeare effected a massive shift of just this kind in his bold management of theatricalisation itself. These pages levy on terms of Kant and Husserl that they elaborated in proposals for such shifts. It will be seen that Shakespeare exceeds the proposals of the philosophers. He anticipates and already brings to a working consummation a systematic and immediate access to the ways of knowing reality that they contemplate as hoped-for desiderata. In, and through, the drama of consciousness played out in the pairs of plays examined here, the playwright and the spectator together - intersubjectively - attain to an 'onlooker' consciousness that exits the fictionality, the play-acting, of theatricalisation; and they are enabled to recover the actuality of objects in their worlds.

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