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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... society and about the necessity of secularization in public life. In its common usage, “Enlightenment” refers in an uncomplicated manner to the secular ideals of the modern world as codified in the eighteenth century. If we apply this ...
... society and about the necessity of secularization in public life. In its common usage, “Enlightenment” refers in an uncomplicated manner to the secular ideals of the modern world as codified in the eighteenth century. If we apply this ...
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... society and a blueprint for reconstructing a body politic in the image of that lost ideal. Both objectives were displayed by its traditional author, Moses, who was a poet as well as a political leader. Genesis put forth paradigms of ...
... society and a blueprint for reconstructing a body politic in the image of that lost ideal. Both objectives were displayed by its traditional author, Moses, who was a poet as well as a political leader. Genesis put forth paradigms of ...
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... society in order to create a new body politic was the goal of much of early modern political theory. Rousseau's Du Contrat social has become the paradigmatic eighteenth-century myth of the social contract as origin of civil society. It ...
... society in order to create a new body politic was the goal of much of early modern political theory. Rousseau's Du Contrat social has become the paradigmatic eighteenth-century myth of the social contract as origin of civil society. It ...
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... society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's and Kant's models illustrate the contradictions visible both in Enlightenment readings of Genesis and in the new origins and theodicies proposed ...
... society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's and Kant's models illustrate the contradictions visible both in Enlightenment readings of Genesis and in the new origins and theodicies proposed ...
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... society. This is the definition dialectically related to ideology, since describing the world as it ought to be always also provides a narrative of the world as it is. At the same time, I also use Theodor W. Adorno's term “utopian ...
... society. This is the definition dialectically related to ideology, since describing the world as it ought to be always also provides a narrative of the world as it is. At the same time, I also use Theodor W. Adorno's term “utopian ...
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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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