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Indolenza vs Progresso. La costruzione del mito sociopolitico delle nazioni progredite negli scritti dei philosophes.
Alberti, Germana
2017In Intrasformazione : Rivista di Storia delle Idee, 6 (1), p. 75-84
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Keywords :
Diderot; Voltaire; collective imagination; otherness; progress; social myths
Abstract :
[en] the image a nation has of a foreign people is frequently influenced by the cultural works, beliefs and stereotypes created on such people by leading intellectuals. Through the study of two texts by Voltaire and Diderot - the Letters on England and Voyage en Hollande - published respectively at the beginning and at the end of the XVIII century, this article wishes to explore the way the two European peoples, at that time considered a model for progress, were represented. In both works balanced description and deep analysis give way to a narrative style whose main aim is to justify and support, more or less openly, the reformist ideals and programmes of the authors: social ones, in Voltaire’s case, political and aesthetical-anthropological ones in Diderot’s case. A delusive antithesis between things that are dynamic – as the country portrayed – and things that are inert is thus generated.
Disciplines :
History
Literature
Philosophy & ethics
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Language :
Italian
Title :
Indolenza vs Progresso. La costruzione del mito sociopolitico delle nazioni progredite negli scritti dei philosophes.
Alternative titles :
[en] Indolence vs Progress. The construction of the sociopolitical myth of advanced nations in the writings of philosophes.
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Intrasformazione : Rivista di Storia delle Idee
eISSN :
2281-1532
Publisher :
Università degli studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Volume :
6
Issue :
1
Pages :
75-84
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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