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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... rewriting of Genesis. At the same time, the presence of these texts at the beginning and end of this tradition also raises important questions about its definition, questions I address in detail in Chapters 2 and 5. At the core of the ...
... rewriting of Genesis. At the same time, the presence of these texts at the beginning and end of this tradition also raises important questions about its definition, questions I address in detail in Chapters 2 and 5. At the core of the ...
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... rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both representative of the species (Adam the father of mankind) and autonomous subject (Adam the solitary male). The problem of how to construct a non ...
... rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both representative of the species (Adam the father of mankind) and autonomous subject (Adam the solitary male). The problem of how to construct a non ...
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... rewrite Genesis . In Frankenstein's creature , we find the resurrection in art of the nightmare of the body politic of Du Contrat social , a terrifying image of its dark side , but also a new reminder of the utopian longings it ...
... rewrite Genesis . In Frankenstein's creature , we find the resurrection in art of the nightmare of the body politic of Du Contrat social , a terrifying image of its dark side , but also a new reminder of the utopian longings it ...
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... Genesis : myth asserting itself as history through the mode of rewriting , I call the prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of ...
... Genesis : myth asserting itself as history through the mode of rewriting , I call the prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of ...
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... rewriting origins means that it deals simultaneously and in often contradictory ways with the dialectic of ideology ... Genesis as a national epic illustrating the possibilities of the private and the public dimensions of the future nation.
... rewriting origins means that it deals simultaneously and in often contradictory ways with the dialectic of ideology ... Genesis as a national epic illustrating the possibilities of the private and the public dimensions of the future nation.
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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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