The fables of reason : a study of Voltaire's "Contes philosophiques"

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The fables of reason : a study of Voltaire's "Contes philosophiques"

Roger Pearson

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993

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Bibliography: p. [252]-261

Includes index

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Almost three hundred years after his birth in 1694, this is the first comprehensive study of Voltaire's contes philosophiques - the philosophical tales for which he is now best remembered and which include the masterpiece Candide. The Fables of Reason situates each of the twenty-six stories in its historical and intellectual context and offers new readings and approaches in the light of modern critical thinking. It rejects the traditional view that Voltaire's contes were the private expression of his philosophical perplexity, written merely in the margins of his historiography and his campaigns against the Establishment. Arguing that narrative is Voltaire's essential mode of thought, the book stresses the role of the reader and shows how the contes are designed less to communicate a set of truths than to encourage independence of mind. Roger Pearson has written a witty, lucid and scholarly guide to the `fables of reason' with which Voltaire undermined - and continues to undermine - the religious, philosophical, and economic `fables', by which other thinkers have tried to explain and direct human experience.

目次

  • Part 1 The fables of reason: the "Contes Philosophiques" and its readers
  • statistics and symposia - "L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus"
  • fallen fables. Part 2 The voyage of reason and the problem of evil: party games - "Le Crocheteur Borgne" and "Cosi-Sancta"
  • man in the universe - "Micromegas"
  • man in the world - "Le Monde comme il va", "Zadig", "Memnon", "Lettre d'un Turc"
  • small consolations - "Songe de Platon", "Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado", "Les Deux Consoles". Part 3 Literature and enlightenment: education and "Merry Hissing" - "Histoire d'un bon Brahmin", "Pot-pourri", "Le Blanc et le Noir", "Jeannot et Colin", "Petite Digression", "Aventure Indienne"
  • hearts and minds - "L'Ingenu"
  • "L'univers en raccounci" - "La Princesse de Babylone", "Les Lettres d'Amabed"
  • totem and taboo - "Le Taureau Blanc"
  • anglicans and academics - "Aventure de la Memoire", "Eloge Historique de la Raison", "Les Oreilles du Comte de Chesterfield", "Histoire de Jenni".

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