Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… beyond their single historicity. While regressing to an uncivilized state of nature, Robinson can speculate in complete solitude, and later establish sociable relationships with the natives and the other persons he introduces into the social … and discipline. Places > Nature Mots-clés Cosmopolitanism Deism Enlightenment Exploration Freemasonry Religion Solitude It is well known that the Island in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is one of the key-elements that contributed … the important episode of the discovery of a footprint in the sand, Robinson finds himself astray and recognizes that his solitude has reached an endpoint. Solitude is no longer sustainable, and Crusoe must accept that no man can be an island. …
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