Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano
Landi, Michela
Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano - Florence Firenze University Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (19 p.)
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Following Voltaire's Essai sur les mœurs, the first explorers of the new worlds are innocents: they respond to the mythic imagery of the first man. It is on their successors that lays the blame: interested in material enrichment, they despoil the new world. After Magellan, the first geographical demarcation line having been overcome, the culture degeneration of Western world is double: geographic and hermeneutic. Voltaire is in fact not so far from Rousseau's thinking.
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Italian
978-88-5518-467-0.12 9788855184670
10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.12 doi
Voltaire Magellan geography and hermeneutics imperialism
Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano - Florence Firenze University Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (19 p.)
Open Access
Following Voltaire's Essai sur les mœurs, the first explorers of the new worlds are innocents: they respond to the mythic imagery of the first man. It is on their successors that lays the blame: interested in material enrichment, they despoil the new world. After Magellan, the first geographical demarcation line having been overcome, the culture degeneration of Western world is double: geographic and hermeneutic. Voltaire is in fact not so far from Rousseau's thinking.
Creative Commons
Italian
978-88-5518-467-0.12 9788855184670
10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.12 doi
Voltaire Magellan geography and hermeneutics imperialism