(Originally Written September 6, 2006 in World Lit)
Neoclassicism (circa 1650-1789)
aka Enlightenment/Augustan Age/Age of Reason
Neoclassicism
- the understanding that real reason knows the limits of reason.
- there are other forces besides reason within us
- there are reasoning people around us
- there is a higher reason above our own
Voltaire
Voltaire is satirizing rationalism - the confident human claim that everything has a cause. Rationalism seems to claim that there is no reason higher than ours.
Candide
provincialism - the idea that what is true in your province is true everywhere
education vs. experience
overload of plot, overload of suffering and the idea of coincidence.
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