The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier University Press, 30.04.1990 - 182 Seiten Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. |
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... Vico's Primitivism Giambattista Vico lived between 1688 and 1744. He was a contemporary of two major disputes , both originating in France , which had great relevance for England : the " Querelle des anciens et des modernes " and the ...
... Vico are profoundly different from the image of the noble savage projected by most eighteenth - century philosophers , dramatists and writers . It is important to note that two opposing traditions come together in the eighteenth ...
... Vico could have read that entire communities of natives were found by the Spaniards living in a state of nature , in a golden age , contented with what they had , in common possession of women and things , without jealousy . In fact , Vico ...
Inhalt
The Roots of the Noble Savage | 1 |
The Return of Ulysses and the Spanish Utopia | 13 |
Chapter 2 | 57 |
Urheberrecht | |
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