Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand

Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004547544)

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Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand

Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought

$128.00
Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand

Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought

$128.00
Format: Hardcover
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The age of Enlightenment - the so-called age of reason - was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.

Author: Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
ISBN-10: 9004547541
ISBN-13: 9789004547544
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2024
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover

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