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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... seventeenth century to the French Revolution and its aftermath. The issues framed by Genesis in such a fraught manner continued to influence the same cultural and political thinkers whose writings put into question the very authority ...
... seventeenth century to the French Revolution and its aftermath. The issues framed by Genesis in such a fraught manner continued to influence the same cultural and political thinkers whose writings put into question the very authority ...
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... seventeenth century the renewed interest in the problem of 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 ...
... seventeenth century the renewed interest in the problem of 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 ...
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... seventeenth-century Italy. Before returning to England in search of their parents, they visit Venice, which serves as the excuse for a eulogy of the republic as something very close to a utopia. Casanova thus concludes with the only ...
... seventeenth-century Italy. Before returning to England in search of their parents, they visit Venice, which serves as the excuse for a eulogy of the republic as something very close to a utopia. Casanova thus concludes with the only ...
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... seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . The actual impetus for writing the essay , however , was Kant's reading of Herder's anthropological rewriting of Genesis in Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit ( Ideas ...
... seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . The actual impetus for writing the essay , however , was Kant's reading of Herder's anthropological rewriting of Genesis in Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit ( Ideas ...
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... seventeenth - century burgher , and that it is necessary , " to put the state of nature in focus , first by showing that it is about social , not natural men . Kant's state of nature effectively translates the ideological component of ...
... seventeenth - century burgher , and that it is necessary , " to put the state of nature in focus , first by showing that it is about social , not natural men . Kant's state of nature effectively translates the ideological component 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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