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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... ancient history , in which the conqueror is the strongest , as heroic history . Modern history is perceived instead by Christian utopists as an alternative between Christian morals and the struggle for power in which Christian morality ...
... Ancient times had the Golden Age , the Middle Ages had the Terrestrial Paradise ; at the time when the ancient myths were dead , or religion is buried by the attacks of the spirit of free inquiry , an ideal more updated , if I can say ...
... ancients because they judge that " the sky , the sun , the natural elements , men , have changed their movements , their order and their power from what they were in ancient times " ( Discourse , op . cit . , p . 124 ) . But this is a ...
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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