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Article: The artist as universal mind: Berkeley's influence on Charles Johnson. (Irish bishop-philosopher-writer's influence on another author)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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Charles Johnson's volume of short stories The Sorcerer's Apprentice opposes the artist's imaginative world to a naive realism that reduces all objects to their sheer materialistic value. In general terms, the "negative" characters of Johnson's stories are all materialists, and their world view postulates a mind-independent universe of physical objects obeying laws of force, energy, and economics. Against these "realist" characters, Johnson deploys metaphorical artists whose job it is symbolically to restructure the world into spiritual patterns, restoring a cohesive sense of connectedness. The controlling motif of the volume is a competition of alternative metaphysics, ...
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