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The Enlightenment and Original Sin
Series: The Life of Ideas
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An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best defined...
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An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment.
What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best defined through what it set out to accomplish, which was nothing short of rethinking the meaning of human nature.
Kadane argues that this project centred around the doctrine of original sin and, ultimately, its rejection, signalling the radical notion that an inherently flawed nature can be overcome by human means. Kadane explores this and other wide-ranging themes through the story of a previously unknown figure, Pentecost Barker, an eighteenth-century purser and wine merchant.
By examining Barker's personal diary and extensive correspondence with a Unitarian minister, Kadane tracks the transformation of Barker's consciousness from a Puritan to an Enlightenment outlook. This reveals, through one man's journey, the large-scale shifts in self-understanding whose philosophical reverberations have shaped debates on human nature for centuries.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780226832890
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 May 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Matthew Kadane is professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. He is the author of The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist.
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