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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... consequently, its understanding of the phrase “long eighteenth century”—extends from the publication of the nine-book first edition of Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667 to the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ...
... consequently, its understanding of the phrase “long eighteenth century”—extends from the publication of the nine-book first edition of Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667 to the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ...
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... consequently, it is the more explicitly ideological, that is, it functions only within the scenario it has defined as given. P, conversely, addresses history in a primarily negative fashion, imagining a system outside of the bounds of ...
... consequently, it is the more explicitly ideological, that is, it functions only within the scenario it has defined as given. P, conversely, addresses history in a primarily negative fashion, imagining a system outside of the bounds of ...
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... consequently , think.43 Kant thus subsumes the egalitarian creation , P , into the second creation , for although he explicitly tells us in his text that they are a pair and does not refer to the issue of Eve's creation , he validates ...
... consequently , think.43 Kant thus subsumes the egalitarian creation , P , into the second creation , for although he explicitly tells us in his text that they are a pair and does not refer to the issue of Eve's creation , he validates ...
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... consequently be deemed natural rather than social ; thus Kant can assume that the “ single pair ” constitutes the “ best arrangement ” for reproduction . How else do we explain the reference to the phrase " this is now bone of my bones ...
... consequently be deemed natural rather than social ; thus Kant can assume that the “ single pair ” constitutes the “ best arrangement ” for reproduction . How else do we explain the reference to the phrase " this is now bone of my bones ...
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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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