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Earthly Paradise

Myths and Philosophies

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 16.3 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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Paradise haunts the Biblical West. At once the place of origin and exile, utopia and final destination, it has shaped our poetic and religious imagination and informed literary and theological accounts of man's relation with his creator, with language and history. For Kant, Paradise was the inaugural moment for the rise and progress of reason as the agency of human history, slowly but certainly driving humanity away from error and superstition. Nietzsche described it more somberly as the very embodiment of the conflict between humanity and its beliefs. In "Earthly Paradise", Milad Doueihi contemplates key moments in the philosophical reception and uses of Paradise, marked by the rise of critical and historical methods in the Early Modern period. How do modern debates around the nature of evil, free will, and the origin of language grow out of the philosophical interpretations of Paradise as the site of human history? How do the reflections of Spinoza, Pierre Bayle, Leibniz, and their contemporaries inform our current ideas about the Biblical narrative of the Fall? Is Paradise the source of human error or an utopian vision of humanity itself?
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  • Title

    Earthly Paradise

  • Author

    Milad Doueihi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    June 2009

  • Weight

    430g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674032859

  • ISBN-10

    0674032853

  • Eden Code

    1887975

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