Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 5.12.2016 г. - 217 страници In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies. |
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... Astruc became the first exponent of what has since become known as the documentary hypothesis when he identified two different original narratives within the book of Genesis . Published anonymously , Astruc's Conjectures is an oddity in ...
... Astruc became the first exponent of what has since become known as the documentary hypothesis when he identified two different original narratives within the book of Genesis . Published anonymously , Astruc's Conjectures is an oddity in ...
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... Astruc's proposition was that Moses composed Genesis out of two original sources , or mémoires . The insight came less from lengthy analysis than from a shift in the interpretative paradigm : This enterprise was not as difficult as one ...
... Astruc's proposition was that Moses composed Genesis out of two original sources , or mémoires . The insight came less from lengthy analysis than from a shift in the interpretative paradigm : This enterprise was not as difficult as one ...
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... Astruc's study is invariably cited as a groundbreaking essay , it is seldom actually read . In - depth discussion of what has become known as the documentary hypothesis began later in the century with more academic and easily definable ...
... Astruc's study is invariably cited as a groundbreaking essay , it is seldom actually read . In - depth discussion of what has become known as the documentary hypothesis began later in the century with more academic and easily definable ...
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... Astruc can rearrange the layout and taxonomize the “divine names.” Thus contextualized, the Bible loses its privileged status as a text that stands outside human contingency.15 As a consequence of this historicist methodological stance ...
... Astruc can rearrange the layout and taxonomize the “divine names.” Thus contextualized, the Bible loses its privileged status as a text that stands outside human contingency.15 As a consequence of this historicist methodological stance ...
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... Astruc. Once available, the rationalist discourse could be adopted wholeheartedly, piecemeal, or not at all; when the Genesis-based model of theodicy does appear, it is no longer so much a question of custom as one of conscious ...
... Astruc. Once available, the rationalist discourse could be adopted wholeheartedly, piecemeal, or not at all; when the Genesis-based model of theodicy does appear, it is no longer so much a question of custom as one of conscious ...
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Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
The Passion of JeanJacques Rousseau or the Dystopia Within | |
Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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