A Bastard Kind of Reasoning

A Bastard Kind of ReasoningRanges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post Newtonian vision of space time anticipates Einsteinian relativity. What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake's geometry the conception of space time that informs his work across media and genres. In this illuminating, inventive new study,

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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices

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The teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age

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