The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier Univ. 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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... religion : the new conscience of individualism and the religion of freedom . As the fifth century after the discovery approaches , we are urged to rekindle our awareness of the magnitude of that event and what it means for us today , as ...
... religious discriminations . In my book I had also indicated three periods culminating in the composition of Sinapia . The first period includes , chronologically the years from 1492 , the date of the discovery , to 1559 , the date of ...
... religion , the perfect social organization , the perfect use of everything . " 16 In fact the accusation of cannibalism which the Spaniards had used in order to justify taking possession of the new lands and enslaving the Indians is ...
... religion ) , rather than to roast it and devour it after death has taken away all feelings and senses . Montaigne attempted to place the New World and the Indians outside of the Biblical tradition with which the Spaniards had justified ...
... religion , because they live naked , without weights or measures and , above all , without the deadly money , in a true golden age , without slanderous judges or books , satisfied with the goods of nature , and without worries for the ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |