Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano
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 geographica...
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| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro |
| Idioma: | Língua italiana |
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Firenze University Press
2021
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| coleção: | Studi e saggi
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| Resumo: | 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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| Descrição Física: | 1 electronic resource (19 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-88-5518-467-0.12 9788855184670 |
| Acesso: | Open Access |