Beschreibung:
Stelio Cros 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 Americas original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseaus 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, Shakespeares Tempest , writers of Spains Golden Age, Defoes Robinson Crusoe , and the European philosophes .
Stelio Cros 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 Americas original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseaus 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, Shakespeares Tempest , writers of Spains Golden Age, Defoes Robinson Crusoe , and the European philosophes .