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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... example: the ways in which the book of Genesis was imbricated into the writings of a number of figures who themselves held passionate views both about religion and its role in society and about the necessity of secularization in public ...
... example: the ways in which the book of Genesis was imbricated into the writings of a number of figures who themselves held passionate views both about religion and its role in society and about the necessity of secularization in public ...
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... examples of Rousseau's Geneva, Casanova's Venice, and other actual republics were all transplanted. Notes 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract, in Donald Cress, trans. and ed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Basic Political ...
... examples of Rousseau's Geneva, Casanova's Venice, and other actual republics were all transplanted. Notes 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract, in Donald Cress, trans. and ed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Basic Political ...
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... example , widely translated and highly regarded at the time , was also criticized for two reasons : his open admission that he had never himself delivered a child , and a lengthy exegetical digression to explain how Adam and Eve , born ...
... example , widely translated and highly regarded at the time , was also criticized for two reasons : his open admission that he had never himself delivered a child , and a lengthy exegetical digression to explain how Adam and Eve , born ...
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... example , had questioned Moses ' status , though neither specifically discussed the question of various authors and ... examples of textual corruption that they could not be understood without the interpretative tradition of the Catholic ...
... example , had questioned Moses ' status , though neither specifically discussed the question of various authors and ... examples of textual corruption that they could not be understood without the interpretative tradition of the Catholic ...
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... example of the literal application of biblical types to the present day can be found in Reformation writers such as Tyndale and Luther, who used scripture to define their schism from the Roman Catholic Church as a new covenant with God ...
... example of the literal application of biblical types to the present day can be found in Reformation writers such as Tyndale and Luther, who used scripture to define their schism from the Roman Catholic Church as a new covenant with God ...
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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