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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... religion and enlightenment by tracing and contextualizing a specific 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 ...
... religion and enlightenment by tracing and contextualizing a specific 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 ...
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... religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. The tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and scriptural language that extends from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Shelley reveals a tradition that self ...
... religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. The tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and scriptural language that extends from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Shelley reveals a tradition that self ...
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... religious questions , he was not concerned with creation itself ; the single principle he preserved from the first three chapters of Genesis was the inevitability of death as the defining feature of life . Although both Hobbes and ...
... religious questions , he was not concerned with creation itself ; the single principle he preserved from the first three chapters of Genesis was the inevitability of death as the defining feature of life . Although both Hobbes and ...
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... religion and enlightenment. In Chapters 2 and 3, I 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 ...
... religion and enlightenment. In Chapters 2 and 3, I 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 ...
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... religious faith in his 1780 translation and commentary of the Pentateuch , where he argues that the principles of reason require a radical reassessment of the Old Testament as a basis for belief : ... The gospel of Jesus is my religious ...
... religious faith in his 1780 translation and commentary of the Pentateuch , where he argues that the principles of reason require a radical reassessment of the Old Testament as a basis for belief : ... The gospel of Jesus is my religious ...
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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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley Ana M. Acosta Limited preview - 2006 |
Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley ANA M. ACOSTA No preview available - 2019 |
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