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Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations by Alexander Regier (Hardcover, 2018)

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ISBN-13: 9780198827122, 978-0198827122. Regier presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790.

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Exorbitant Enlightenment presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century, and compels us to re-think our common account of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story about a set of exorbitant and radical figures and institutions, with particular focus on William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. The volume offers the first expanded comparative reading of these two highly important and idiosyncratic figures. It explores their conceptions of language, showing that Blake and Hamann articulate a radical critique of instrumental thought and institutional religion, and argue for an irreducible relation between language and the sexual body that continues to matter today.