Imagination and the Cosmic Consciousness in Chaucer’s The House of Fame
Religions July 25, 2023 Dominika Ruszkiewicz
The aim of this article is to situate Chaucer’s The House of Fame in the tradition of exercising the self as practiced by ancient philosophers and theorized by Pierre Hadot. It shows that Chaucer’s poem contains echoes of an ancient exercise referred to as ‘the view from above’, which engages the faculties of the imagination in order to enable an individual to review their life and to situate...