William Blake, Jacques Derrida and the Secret Heart of Deconstruction

The Dark Back of Time

Brendan McNamee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5631-3 (ISBN)

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This book reads Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction through the lens of William Blake's aphorism, "Eternity is in love with the productions of time". Blake's sentence finds a modern echo in Leonard Cohen's most famous line, "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in". That light is Blake's eternity. This book takes deconstruction out of the seminar room and into the wider world, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life, and showing also that it has existed for as long as language itself, and that it forms the invisible heart of both art and religion. The book will be of interest to all Blake and Derrida scholars, and to all literature lovers who harbour a spiritual hunger. It will also interest students of religion and theology, and indeed anyone who wonders, with Charles Bukowski, about the nature of that "place in the heart that will never be filled".

Brendan McNamee is an independent scholar and the author of two works of fiction, The Man Who Lived in Sorcy Wood, a modern fable, and The Last High King, a historical novel dealing with the 16th century Gaelic chieftain, Hugh O'Neill. He has written a study of Irish novelist, John Banville, published in 2006 as The Quest for God in the Novels of John Banville, 1973-2005: A Postmodern Spirituality, and his essays on writers such as Flann O'Brien, W. B. Yeats, Francis Stuart, Philip Larkin and Sean O'Casey have appeared in a variety of academic journals. His most recent book publications include Mysticism in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities (2017), Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane (2019) and Against the Grain: Essays on Michel Houellebecq, Flannery O'Connor, Gerald Murnane, Francis Stuart and Clarice Lispector (2020). His chief literary interest lies in tracing the resonances between literature and spirituality, with an emphasis on mysticism.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5631-5 / 1036456315
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5631-3 / 9781036456313
Zustand	Neuware