Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination

Released on by Patrick McGee
preview-18

  • Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination Book Detail

  • Author : Patrick McGee
  • Release Date : 2016-09-08
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 284
  • ISBN 13 : 1501320076
  • File Size : 80,80 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination by Patrick McGee PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

File Size : 25,25 MB
Total View : 7471 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work c

Novel Politics

Novel Politics

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 923 Views
DOWNLOAD

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideol

Comedy, Book One

Comedy, Book One

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 8970 Views
DOWNLOAD

Comedy is a philosophical poem for the twenty-first century inspired by Dante’s Commedia. It can be read as an ironic dream or fantasy that addresses the demo

Comedy, Book Two

Comedy, Book Two

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 6234 Views
DOWNLOAD

Comedy is a philosophical poem in the form of waking dream, inspired by Dante and William Blake. In book two, Cinematic Revolutions, the narrator, having passed