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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... myth of origins during the period of social transformation in Europe extending from the late seventeenth century to the French Revolution and its aftermath. The issues framed by Genesis in such a fraught manner continued to influence ...
... myth of origins during the period of social transformation in Europe extending from the late seventeenth century to the French Revolution and its aftermath. The issues framed by Genesis in such a fraught manner continued to influence ...
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... myth of the social contract as origin of civil society. It gives full expression to the hexameral tradition left out ... myths. In Rousseau's terms, earlier political theorists had created not a sovereign body in the image of God, but a ...
... myth of the social contract as origin of civil society. It gives full expression to the hexameral tradition left out ... myths. In Rousseau's terms, earlier political theorists had created not a sovereign body in the image of God, but a ...
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... myth asserting itself as history through the mode of rewriting , I call the prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible ... mythical or fictional account that explains or justifies the world as it is; in the.
... myth asserting itself as history through the mode of rewriting , I call the prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible ... mythical or fictional account that explains or justifies the world as it is; in the.
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... myth of Genesis. In this Discours, Rousseau creates a figural representation of history that is fulfilled by his personal imitatio Christi described in the later autobiographical works: Les Confessions, Rousseau juge de Jean Jaques, and ...
... myth of Genesis. In this Discours, Rousseau creates a figural representation of history that is fulfilled by his personal imitatio Christi described in the later autobiographical works: Les Confessions, Rousseau juge de Jean Jaques, and ...
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... myth and enlightenment. The creature equally embodies a sense of the end of the Enlightenment project in Europe, since the novel concludes not with his dreamed-of emigration to the New World across the Atlantic, but in the sterile ...
... myth and enlightenment. The creature equally embodies a sense of the end of the Enlightenment project in Europe, since the novel concludes not with his dreamed-of emigration to the New World across the Atlantic, but in the sterile ...
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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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