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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... Kant show how these assumptions were incorporated into a philosophical methodology that rewrites Genesis in order to formulate an ideal society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's and Kant's ...
... Kant show how these assumptions were incorporated into a philosophical methodology that rewrites Genesis in order to formulate an ideal society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's and Kant's ...
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... Kant and Casanova stand at extreme poles of notoriety in the late eighteenth century: Kant's life is remembered only for its mythic regularity and lack of eventfulness, as in the commonplace that the clocks of Königsberg were set by his ...
... Kant and Casanova stand at extreme poles of notoriety in the late eighteenth century: Kant's life is remembered only for its mythic regularity and lack of eventfulness, as in the commonplace that the clocks of Königsberg were set by his ...
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... to speak, in nihilo. Casanova produced a text without a discernible or coherent community; the ideology of Kant's essay, “What is Enlightenment?” presents an autonomous individual who requires no community in order to know what.
... to speak, in nihilo. Casanova produced a text without a discernible or coherent community; the ideology of Kant's essay, “What is Enlightenment?” presents an autonomous individual who requires no community in order to know what.
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... Kant's Prussia . Kant rewrote J's version of Genesis in his essay , " Mutmaßlicher Anfang der Menschengeschichte " ( " Speculative Beginnings of Human History ; " 1786 ) , during the same years in which Casanova was writing the ...
... Kant's Prussia . Kant rewrote J's version of Genesis in his essay , " Mutmaßlicher Anfang der Menschengeschichte " ( " Speculative Beginnings of Human History ; " 1786 ) , during the same years in which Casanova was writing the ...
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... Kant's philosophical stress on rational inference and the typological rewriting of origins characteristic of the prophetic voice . Kant's account retains key narrative elements of J such as the fruit , the snake , the consciousness of ...
... Kant's philosophical stress on rational inference and the typological rewriting of origins characteristic of the prophetic voice . Kant's account retains key narrative elements of J such as the fruit , the snake , the consciousness of ...
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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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