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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... chapter, and it contradicts in many ways the version of creation told in the first chapter. The six days of creation are truly utopian: there is no conflict; man and woman are created together and equal; the only thing resembling ...
... chapter, and it contradicts in many ways the version of creation told in the first chapter. The six days of creation are truly utopian: there is no conflict; man and woman are created together and equal; the only thing resembling ...
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... Chapters 2 and 5. At the core of the book is a study of the complex ways in which the traditional authority of the first chapters of Genesis was neither superseded nor simply secularized but continued to influence and, in fact, to ...
... Chapters 2 and 5. At the core of the book is a study of the complex ways in which the traditional authority of the first chapters of Genesis was neither superseded nor simply secularized but continued to influence and, in fact, to ...
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... chapters of Genesis was the inevitability of death as the defining feature of life . Although both Hobbes and Rousseau considered scripture to be an indispensable component of a political theory , Rousseau , like Milton before him ...
... chapters of Genesis was the inevitability of death as the defining feature of life . Although both Hobbes and Rousseau considered scripture to be an indispensable component of a political theory , Rousseau , like Milton before him ...
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... Chapter 1 as the broader milieu in which the more specific form of rewriting undertaken by Milton , Rousseau , Wollstonecraft , and Shelley occurred . In this chapter , I map key intersections of my argument with two other exemplary ...
... Chapter 1 as the broader milieu in which the more specific form of rewriting undertaken by Milton , Rousseau , Wollstonecraft , and Shelley occurred . In this chapter , I map key intersections of my argument with two other exemplary ...
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... Chapter 4 deals with the way in which these two models of origin are rejected by Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Both Milton and Rousseau permeate the Vindication not only in terms of their political ideas, but also ...
... Chapter 4 deals with the way in which these two models of origin are rejected by Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Both Milton and Rousseau permeate the Vindication not only in terms of their political ideas, but also ...
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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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