6/12/2023 0 Comments Va ra kant poet![]() Using lectures of Kant that have been published only in the past decade, Budick develops an account of Kant based on his lifelong absorption in the poetry of Milton, especially Paradise Lost. Milton's bold self-reliance is Kant's as well. Kant turned that religiously inflected poetry into the richest modern philosophy. Milton gave voice to the transformation of human understanding effected by the Protestant Revolt, making poetry of the idea that human reason is created self-sufficient. In all these cases philosophy and poetry allow us to better understand each other. As Plato and Aristotle contemplate Homer, so Kant contemplates Milton. Sanford Budick reveals the relation between a poetic vision and a philosophy that theorized what that poetry was doing. Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant's encounter with Milton's poetry to the formation of Kant's moral and aesthetic thought.
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