TY  - GEN
AU  - Landi,Michela
TI  - Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano
SN  - 978-88-5518-467-0.12
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Florence
PB  - Firenze University Press
KW  - Voltaire
KW  - Magellan
KW  - geography and hermeneutics
KW  - imperialism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56550/1/24977.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/83106
ER  -