Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyIn 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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... authority and doctrinal status it continued to possess nevertheless. This book reassesses the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment by tracing and contextualizing a specific example: the ways in which the book of ...
... authority and doctrinal status it continued to possess nevertheless. This book reassesses the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment by tracing and contextualizing a specific example: the ways in which the book of ...
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... authority of the first chapters of Genesis was neither superseded nor simply secularized but continued to influence and, in fact, to structure the paradigmatic projects of many writers of the early modern period and the long eighteenth ...
... authority of the first chapters of Genesis was neither superseded nor simply secularized but continued to influence and, in fact, to structure the paradigmatic projects of many writers of the early modern period and the long eighteenth ...
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... authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought borrowed heavily from the exegetical tradition while radically reshaping the terms on ...
... authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought borrowed heavily from the exegetical tradition while radically reshaping the terms on ...
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... authority of the Bible . 3 Astruc's Conjectures poses a similar problem of categorization : although fully cognizant of recent developments in the historical and linguistic methodology of biblical criticism , Astruc continued to adhere ...
... authority of the Bible . 3 Astruc's Conjectures poses a similar problem of categorization : although fully cognizant of recent developments in the historical and linguistic methodology of biblical criticism , Astruc continued to adhere ...
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... , evidently , does the secular study of scripture guarantee diminished religiosity . Scripture did not simply disappear as the traditional sense of its authority was revised; instead, it became newly available to different.
... , evidently , does the secular study of scripture guarantee diminished religiosity . Scripture did not simply disappear as the traditional sense of its authority was revised; instead, it became newly available to different.
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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