Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
10-1983
Abstract
According to David Punter, "Blake's dialectic and Hegel's share a number of crucial features" (p. 11), making Hegel's Phenomenology the "closest parallel to [Blake's] work" (p. 17). By emphasizing progression through contraries, both Blake and Hegel transform the dialectical tradition that they presumably inherit from Heraclitus, Giordano Bruno, and Jakob Böhme, all of whom Punter analyzes in his opening chapter. Subsequent chapters trace the similarities that Punter finds among such works as the Phenomenology, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Four Zoas. Although Punter calls his comparison of Blake and Hegel "important and fruitful" (p. 255), I do not see that it tells us much that we did not already know.
Identifier
10.1353/phl.1983.0007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Repository Citation
Fischer, M. (1983). Blake, Hegel and dialectic [Review of the book Blake, Hegel and dialectic, by D. Punter]. Philosophy and Literature, 7(2), 265-266. doi: 10.1353/phl.1983.0007
Publication Information
Philosophy and Literature