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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... evil” (2:9). Given its status as the origin of history and the mechanism for explaining it, the fall becomes the crucial difference in later rewritings; for whereas the authors treated here tend to stress literality when dealing with P ...
... evil” (2:9). Given its status as the origin of history and the mechanism for explaining it, the fall becomes the crucial difference in later rewritings; for whereas the authors treated here tend to stress literality when dealing with P ...
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... evil took several forms. Augustine's resolution of the problem of evil had settled the issue to the satisfaction of most Christians, and it was fairly dormant until it was taken up from a rationalistic perspective divorced for the most ...
... evil took several forms. Augustine's resolution of the problem of evil had settled the issue to the satisfaction of most Christians, and it was fairly dormant until it was taken up from a rationalistic perspective divorced for the most ...
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... evil : Adam and Eve fall because , unlike the Mégamicres , they did not receive God's benediction in 1 : 28.37 Casanova deduces that the world created in J is the exterior world as we know it , and that when God transported Adam to ...
... evil : Adam and Eve fall because , unlike the Mégamicres , they did not receive God's benediction in 1 : 28.37 Casanova deduces that the world created in J is the exterior world as we know it , and that when God transported Adam to ...
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... evil as the painful but ultimately beneficial origin of civilization , here understood as the progressive separation of mankind from the natural world . His rereading ingeniously transforms the prohibition and fall into an issue of ...
... evil as the painful but ultimately beneficial origin of civilization , here understood as the progressive separation of mankind from the natural world . His rereading ingeniously transforms the prohibition and fall into an issue 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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