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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... voice of a prophet in order to guarantee that his ideal state would be beautiful and harmonious rather than " a fantastic being made of reassembled pieces , " a body united only by the fear of death . Like Mary Wollstonecraft before her ...
... voice of a prophet in order to guarantee that his ideal state would be beautiful and harmonious rather than " a fantastic being made of reassembled pieces , " a body united only by the fear of death . Like Mary Wollstonecraft before her ...
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... prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought ...
... prophetic voice . 5 As the Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought ...
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... prophetic voice questions the overall concept of secularization, the possibility of any separation between religion and enlightenment. In Chapters 2 and 3, I argue that Milton and Rousseau both created worlds in which they figure as ...
... prophetic voice questions the overall concept of secularization, the possibility of any separation between religion and enlightenment. In Chapters 2 and 3, I argue that Milton and Rousseau both created worlds in which they figure as ...
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... prophetic voice to appropriate the same typological structure, but in order to replace, rather than work within, the framework of religious practice and dogma. Biblicism continued in its familiar form as well, but what had been the ...
... prophetic voice to appropriate the same typological structure, but in order to replace, rather than work within, the framework of religious practice and dogma. Biblicism continued in its familiar form as well, but what had been the ...
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... prophetic voice that authorizes the visions of Milton, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Shelley has resulted in a fraught confusion of the key Enlightenment antinomy between private and public, Kant's biography epitomizes the separation of ...
... prophetic voice that authorizes the visions of Milton, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Shelley has resulted in a fraught confusion of the key Enlightenment antinomy between private and public, Kant's biography epitomizes the separation of ...
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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