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These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single
theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the
state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the
concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social
institutions and relationships associated with the individual.
With erudition and wit, Jean Delumeau explores the medieval
conviction that paradise existed in a precise although unreachable
earthly location. Delving into the writings of dozens of medieval
and Renaissance thinkers, from Augustine to Dante, Delumeau
presents a luminous study of the meaning of Original Sin and the
human yearning for paradise. The finest minds of the Middle Ages
wrote about where paradise was to be found, what it was like, and
who dwelt in it. Explorers sailed into the unknown in search of
paradisal gardens of wealth and delight that were thought to be
near the original Garden. Cartographers drew Eden into their maps,
often indicating the wilderness into which Adam and Eve were cast,
along with the magical kingdom of Prester John, Jerusalem, Babel,
the Happy Isles, Ophir, and other places described in biblical
narrative or borrowed from other cultures. Later, Renaissance
thinkers and writers meticulously reconstructed the details of the
original Eden, even providing schedules of the Creation and
physical descriptions of Adam and Eve. Even when the Enlightenment,
with its discovery of fossils and pre-Darwinian theories of
evolution, gradually banished the dream of paradise on earth, a
nostalgia for Eden shaped elements of culture from literature to
gardening. In our own time, Eden's hold on the Western imagination
continues to fuel questions such as whether land should be
conserved or exploited and whether a return to innocence is
possible.
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