Voltaire's didactic poem Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756) was an immediate philosophical and literary response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Voltaire's stance rejected both systematic optimism and paralysing pessimism by invoking a 'modest' hope in the face of suffering. The poem transforms a geological catastrophe into a philosophical watershed, opposing the irreducible discontinuity of human experience to metaphysical totality.
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne by Voltaire
Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici
2025-01-01
Abstract
Voltaire's didactic poem Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756) was an immediate philosophical and literary response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Voltaire's stance rejected both systematic optimism and paralysing pessimism by invoking a 'modest' hope in the face of suffering. The poem transforms a geological catastrophe into a philosophical watershed, opposing the irreducible discontinuity of human experience to metaphysical totality.File in questo prodotto:
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