Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 217 pages 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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... argue in Chapter 1, it can be applied only to a few of the most thoroughly materialistic of the French Encyclopedists. Nevertheless, “Enlightenment” remains a useful historical term for the variety of new philosophies and ideas that ...
... argue in Chapter 1, it can be applied only to a few of the most thoroughly materialistic of the French Encyclopedists. Nevertheless, “Enlightenment” remains a useful historical term for the variety of new philosophies and ideas that ...
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... argue here that these texts belong firmly within the eighteenth-century tradition of the rewriting of Genesis. At ... argument is twofold: to establish the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, particularly the influential ...
... argue here that these texts belong firmly within the eighteenth-century tradition of the rewriting of Genesis. At ... argument is twofold: to establish the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, particularly the influential ...
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... scientific dreams . Frankenstein underlines the primary argument of this book : the ideals of Milton , Rousseau , and Wollstonecraft are not constructed through political praxis , but through art . Read first as fictions , these.
... scientific dreams . Frankenstein underlines the primary argument of this book : the ideals of Milton , Rousseau , and Wollstonecraft are not constructed through political praxis , but through art . Read first as fictions , these.
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... argument with two other exemplary readings of Genesis in the long eighteenth century : the critical - historical ... argue that they coexist in the same manner as the split origin in Genesis . It will be helpful at this point to provide ...
... argument with two other exemplary readings of Genesis in the long eighteenth century : the critical - historical ... argue that they coexist in the same manner as the split origin in Genesis . It will be helpful at this point to provide ...
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... argue that Milton and Rousseau both created worlds in which they figure as prophets, appropriating prehistory in order to lay out their own visions of the individual and his place in civil society. In Paradise Lost, Milton presented his ...
... argue that Milton and Rousseau both created worlds in which they figure as prophets, appropriating prehistory in order to lay out their own visions of the individual and his place in civil society. In Paradise Lost, Milton presented his ...
Contents
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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