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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... God's repeated pronouncement that “it was good.” The Eden story, by contrast, is a mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about ...
... God's repeated pronouncement that “it was good.” The Eden story, by contrast, is a mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about ...
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... God's Adam. The ideal state, according to Rousseau, resembles neither “Giants” nor “Dwarves,” although, given a ... God saw that it was good” is simultaneously a moral, a political, and an aesthetic judgment; Rousseau's utopian vision ...
... God's Adam. The ideal state, according to Rousseau, resembles neither “Giants” nor “Dwarves,” although, given a ... God saw that it was good” is simultaneously a moral, a political, and an aesthetic judgment; Rousseau's utopian vision ...
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... God and scripture , leaving aside the spiritual , along with all questions of origins , as unknowable : " . we understand nothing of what he is , but only that he is . " 3 While Hobbes devoted nearly half of Leviathan to religious ...
... God and scripture , leaving aside the spiritual , along with all questions of origins , as unknowable : " . we understand nothing of what he is , but only that he is . " 3 While Hobbes devoted nearly half of Leviathan to religious ...
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... God in Genesis 2 (“east of Eden,” as the King James, or Authorized Version of 1611 has it). This utopian garden found itself relocated many times during the early modern period and the eighteenth century. Most importantly, as my ...
... God in Genesis 2 (“east of Eden,” as the King James, or Authorized Version of 1611 has it). This utopian garden found itself relocated many times during the early modern period and the eighteenth century. Most importantly, as my ...
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... God is consistently called Elohim : I placed these in one column which I called A , and I regarded them as so many pieces , or if you like , fragments of an original mémoire , here designated by the letter A. I placed next to it , in ...
... God is consistently called Elohim : I placed these in one column which I called A , and I regarded them as so many pieces , or if you like , fragments of an original mémoire , here designated by the letter A. I placed next to it , in ...
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Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
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Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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