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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... philosophies and ideas that emerged during the long eighteenth century, and I use it in this sense throughout the book. At the same time, I also use the lowercase “enlightenment” to refer to the broader phenomenon of instrumental ...
... philosophies and ideas that emerged during the long eighteenth century, and I use it in this sense throughout the book. At the same time, I also use the lowercase “enlightenment” to refer to the broader phenomenon of instrumental ...
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... philosophical, and moral assumptions on which to base that construction, found their most readily available and powerful antecedent in the individually derived political system of Genesis. The act of genesis that would rewrite civil ...
... philosophical, and moral assumptions on which to base that construction, found their most readily available and powerful antecedent in the individually derived political system of Genesis. The act of genesis that would rewrite civil ...
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... philosophical , political , critical , or literary program would be a well - nigh impossible task . Instead , I address Enlightenment attitudes toward Genesis in Chapter 1 as the broader milieu in which the more specific form of ...
... philosophical , political , critical , or literary program would be a well - nigh impossible task . Instead , I address Enlightenment attitudes toward Genesis in Chapter 1 as the broader milieu in which the more specific form of ...
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... Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746), and Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar's Orígenes de la lengua española (1737); ...
... Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746), and Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar's Orígenes de la lengua española (1737); ...
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... philosophical question of theodicy. In both cases, regardless of the degree of individual faith, debate continued to be conducted primarily from within a framework of belief. That framework, however, was no longer defined by the ...
... philosophical question of theodicy. In both cases, regardless of the degree of individual faith, debate continued to be conducted primarily from within a framework of belief. That framework, however, was no longer defined by the ...
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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