Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 05/12/2016 - 217 من الصفحات 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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... Casanova and Kant show how these assumptions were incorporated into a philosophical methodology that rewrites Genesis in order to formulate an ideal society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's ...
... Casanova and Kant show how these assumptions were incorporated into a philosophical methodology that rewrites Genesis in order to formulate an ideal society . Through an exclusive focus on one or the other version of creation , Casanova's ...
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... 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 Writings (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987) ...
... 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 Writings (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987) ...
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... Casanova's contemporaneous rewriting of P. Building on the philosophy of Natural Right, Kant suspends consideration of P altogether as beyond the province of human reason in order to focus all of his attention onto the concerns of J; ...
... Casanova's contemporaneous rewriting of P. Building on the philosophy of Natural Right, Kant suspends consideration of P altogether as beyond the province of human reason in order to focus all of his attention onto the concerns of J; ...
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... Casanova's reading, while meticulous in regard to the Church Fathers, and firmly maintaining the authorial unity of the Pentateuch, constitutes perhaps the most radical application of the documentary hypothesis in the eighteenth century ...
... Casanova's reading, while meticulous in regard to the Church Fathers, and firmly maintaining the authorial unity of the Pentateuch, constitutes perhaps the most radical application of the documentary hypothesis in the eighteenth century ...
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... Casanova cites the existence of the Mégamicres themselves . In his gloss of the key verses of P's creation , 1 : 24-31 , we read : I find in the story of the Mégamicres that every couple is composed of two individuals each of which is ...
... Casanova cites the existence of the Mégamicres themselves . In his gloss of the key verses of P's creation , 1 : 24-31 , we read : I find in the story of the Mégamicres that every couple is composed of two individuals each of which is ...
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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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