William Blake against the “Satanic Mills” of Modern Rationality
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William Blake, Early-Modernity, RationalityAbstract
The present article brings to the fore the heavy criticism William Blake addressed to rationalism, which had extended widely and consolidated itself into the most powerful European nations by the end of the XVIII century, and the singular imagination which animates his work, its mystic and obscure dimensions and inclination to establishing a system of its own, refusing the kind of “abstract” vision of the world that Blake saw underlying the writings of some thinkers of the early modern era. At the same time, it searches to show how Blake’s work broke well established paradigms of knowledge of his time, and concludes that his work should be acknowledged as a turning point in early modern aesthetics.
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