The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic EraUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 - 274 páginas The Book of God is a penetrating study of the argument from design as it emerged and circulated in the romantic era. This argument holds that the intricacy and complexity of the natural world points to a divine designer and that nature is to be read as God's book. A literary and philosophical study of this idea, The Book of God revisits the familiar equation of romanticism, modernity, and secularization. Colin Jager eschews classic formulations of the thesis that societies secularize as they modernize, arguing instead that secularization is complexly interwoven with modernity rather than simply opposed to it. This revised concept of secularization reveals how arguments about God's designing intentions structure a romantic modernity that is neither progressive nor entirely secular. |
Contenido
The Argument Against Design from Deism to Blake | 41 |
Natural Theology in Humes Dialogues | 58 |
Theory Practice and Anna Barbauld | 73 |
William Paley Immanuel Kant | 102 |
Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology | 124 |
The Shape of Analogy | 158 |
Secularization and Evil | 188 |
Religion Three Ways | 201 |
Notes | 229 |
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Acknowledgments | 273 |
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Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic Paul Hamilton Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |