Earthly Paradise: Myths and Philosophies [French]

by Milad Doueihi

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 0674032853
• ISBN13: 9780674032859
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"