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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... example in a long history of the interplay between scripture and social praxis ; however , it also constitutes a crucial moment in that history . To account for the cruces within the first three chapters of Genesis by splitting up their ...
... example in a long history of the interplay between scripture and social praxis ; however , it also constitutes a crucial moment in that history . To account for the cruces within the first three chapters of Genesis by splitting up their ...
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... example, the crux of Genesis-based theodicies had traditionally been the culpability of Eve; the exclusive reliance on J also entailed accepting the very problematic status of Eve within that world.24 O ne way around this crux is the ...
... example, the crux of Genesis-based theodicies had traditionally been the culpability of Eve; the exclusive reliance on J also entailed accepting the very problematic status of Eve within that world.24 O ne way around this crux is the ...
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... example, invokes J, along with later apocryphal material, in order to exculpate the figure of Eve. He argues in his essay “Defensa de las mugeres” that if the serpent was Satan, and Satan was an angel and therefore vastly superior to ...
... example, invokes J, along with later apocryphal material, in order to exculpate the figure of Eve. He argues in his essay “Defensa de las mugeres” that if the serpent was Satan, and Satan was an angel and therefore vastly superior to ...
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... example for Adam's capacity for rational thought . It is nevertheless rather eccentric that Kant should cite the passage " this is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman , because she was taken out of ...
... example for Adam's capacity for rational thought . It is nevertheless rather eccentric that Kant should cite the passage " this is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman , because she was taken out of ...
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... example , expresses the bourgeois separation between private and public , and the ascendancy of the former over the latter . Witness the melancholy observation about man after the fall , " Perhaps their sole comforting prospect was to ...
... example , expresses the bourgeois separation between private and public , and the ascendancy of the former over the latter . Witness the melancholy observation about man after the fall , " Perhaps their sole comforting prospect was to ...
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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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