Modern poetic inspiration is a subjective accommodation to the Reformation’s deontologizing of language.

Evidence

This difference in the economy of “inspiration” needs to be investigated further, but it may be suggested that the modern poetic conception of “inspiration” is a subjectivized accommodation to the transformations here referred to. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 185

Categorization

• XREF: Sharpens the secularization thesis: where religion relocated authority into the subject (faith as inner knowing), art relocated genius into the same subject — parallels both Charles Taylor and the ‘aesthetic as secular religion’ literature.
• SEED: Article thread: ‘secular inspiration is theology in exile’ — tracing how the modern artist inherited the structural slot once held by the passive recipient of divine inspiration.