{"id":526,"date":"2016-11-30T19:14:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T19:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=526"},"modified":"2024-03-01T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:00:35","slug":"yeats-philosophy-and-the-occult-edited-by-matthew-gibson-and-neil-mann","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/yeats-philosophy-and-the-occult-edited-by-matthew-gibson-and-neil-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult<\/i> is a collection of essays examining the thought of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and particularly his philosophical reading and explorations of older systems of thought, where philosophy, mysticism, and the supernatural blend. It opens with a broad survey of the current state of Yeats scholarship, which also includes an examination of Yeats\u2019s poetic practice through a manuscript of the original core of a poem that became a work of philosophical thought and occult lore, \u201cThe Phases of the Moon.\u201d The following essay examines an area where spiritualism, eugenic theory, and criminology cross paths in the writings of Cesare Lombroso, and Yeats\u2019s response to his work. The third paper considers Yeats\u2019s debts to the East, especially Buddhist and Hindu thought, while the fourth looks at his ideas about the dream-state, the nature of reality, and contact with the dead. The fifth essay explores Yeats\u2019s understanding of the concept of the Great Year from classical astronomy and philosophy, and its role in the system of his work <i>A Vision<\/i>, and the sixth paper studies that work\u2019s theory of \u201ccontemporaneous periods\u201d affecting each other across history in the light of Oswald Spengler\u2019s <i>The Decline of the West<\/i>. The seventh essay evaluates Yeats\u2019s reading of Berkeley and his critics\u2019 appreciation (or lack of it) of how he responds to Berkeley\u2019s idealism. The book as a whole explores how Yeats\u2019s mind and thought relate to his poetry, drama, and prose, and how his reading informs all of them.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":313,"template":"","subject":[35,36,37],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-526","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-irish-literature","subject-literature","subject-modernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/526\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}