How Paradise Lost Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade) | The Chris Hedges Report

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Professor Orlando Reade joins Chris Hedges to discuss his book, "What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost," to examine the epic poem’s influence in the four centuries since its publication on revolutionary thinkers, and uses the poem to analyze the moral grey area that exists in war and revolution. Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges Photo in thumbnail: An engraving by the French printmaker Gustave Dore of Fallen Angels, a scene from John Milton's Paradise Lost. (Photo by Chris Hellier/Corbis via Getty Images) (0:00) Intro (2:39) Milton within Paraide Lost (4:11) The English Civil War (9:20) Religious intolerance (10:44) Freedom of speech (13:21) Dialogue with radicals (15:20) Satan’s War (18:01) Satan’s tenderness (19:27) Is life worth living? (20:46) Mortality and Internal Paradise (21:56) Do we change the world incrementally? (25:32) Violence (25:59) Taking the role of the deity (27:25) Malcolm X’s reading of Paradise Lost (32:08) The perspectives of the less fortunate (35:24) Thomas Paine (38:16) Are the fallen angels slaves? (41:36) How did Blake see the deity? (42:31) Satan’s nobility (43:50) Mary Shelley (45:15) Virginia Woolf (47:41) TS Eliot (48:40) CLR James (51:28) CLR James on Moby Dick (55:18) Outro