{"id":64373,"date":"2024-06-13T02:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64373"},"modified":"2024-06-14T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:38:05","slug":"new-article-by-timo-airaksinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/new-article-by-timo-airaksinen\/","title":{"rendered":"New article by Timo Airaksinen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New from Timo Airaksinen (<em>The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em>), a 2023 article on <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4858635\">&#8220;The Idea of Lost Identity in Fantasy Fiction: Stevenson, Stoker, and Lovecraft&#8221;<\/a>. Released June 2024, and freely available for download. <\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re interested in delving deep into Lovecraft&#8217;s apparently more-than-passing interest in the British philosopher Bishop Berkeley, I see that Timo Airaksinen edited a book on <em>Berkeley\u2019s Lasting Legacy: 300 Years Later<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;Another outland pilgrimage is to the Bishop Berkeley country, some four miles beyond Newport beach on the road to Middletown.&#8221; (Lovecraft, <em>Selected Letters<\/em> II)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;the rocks and surf on which we looked down from our exalted perch &mdash; a perch which 200 years ago [1728-32] was a favourite of Dean (later Bishop) Berkeley as he composed his famous <em>Aleiphron<\/em> or, <em>The Minute Philosopher<\/em>. (Lovecraft, <em>Selected Letters<\/em> IV)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;discussed the cosmos with Dean Berkeley\u2019s shade [i.e. &#8216;ghost&#8217;]&#8221; (Lovecraft)<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley believed, among other things, that \u201creality isn\u2019t separate from perception\u201d and was a deep thinker on language who was later compared to Wittgenstein. Both of which might have interested Lovecraft, as well as his long-ago presence in nearby Newport. Apparently, according the blurb for Airaksinen&#8217;s book, by the 20th century Berkeley had been forgotten for all but his early writing on reality\/perception. But one wonders what Lovecraft picked up of Berkeley in his deep reading of the 18th century texts in his grandfather&#8217;s attic library, and also by reading Berkeley direct (there was also a 1929 sampler). Note also <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/fordham-scholarship-online\/book\/22707\/chapter-abstract\/183115893?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">&#8220;George Berkeley and the Alchemical Tradition&#8221;<\/a> which &#8220;examines the presence of alchemical tradition in <em>Siris<\/em>, the last published book of George [Bishop] Berkeley&#8221;. This is a chapter in <em>The Other Bishop Berkeley: An Exercise in Reenchantment<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New from Timo Airaksinen (The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft), a 2023 article on &#8220;The Idea of Lost Identity in Fantasy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/new-article-by-timo-airaksinen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64373"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64421,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64373\/revisions\/64421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}