Description: Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce [Hardcover] McGee, Patrick Product Overview Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole; an understanding of thought as a process that operates between rather than within individuals; and a theory of infinite truth, something individuals only partially glimpse from their particular cultural situations. For Blake, God is the constellation of individual human beings, whose collective imagination produces revolutionary change. In Hugo’s novel, Jean Valjean learns that the greatest truth about humanity lies in the sewer or among the lowest forms of social existence. For Joyce, Leopold and Molly Bloom are everybody and nobody, singular beings whose creative power and truth is beyond categories and social hierarchies. Read more Details Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic (September 8, 2016) Language : English Hardcover : 282 pages ISBN-10 : 150132005X ISBN-13 : 57 Item Weight : 1.21 pounds Dimensions : 6 x 0.83 x 9 inches Best Sellers Rank: #11,923,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3,341 in Literary Theory #38,245 in Philosophy (Books) #59,196 in Literary Criticism & Theory #3,341 in Literary Theory #38,245 in Philosophy (Books) Stock Photos Please Note: All of our book listings use stock photos unless otherwise stated. Please read our descriptions for accurate conditions and editions, don't use the photos! Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 150132005X
ISBN10: 150132005X
ISBN13: 9781501320057
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Brand: Bloomsbury
GTIN: 09781501320057
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination : Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: European / French, Individual Philosophers, General, Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Patrick Mcgee
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
