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Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce

Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce

McGee, Patrick

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PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501341235
ISBN13: 9781501341236
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 22 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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