Supplément au voyage de Bougainville

Denis Diderot · 1772 · Philosophical Text

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It utilized the encounter with a culturally 'alien' society to question and satirize the perceived superiority and moral failings of European civilization.

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This philosophical dialogue uses the encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of Tahiti, as described by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, to critique European customs, morality, and the concept of 'civilization.' It presents the Tahitian society as a 'natural' alternative to European norms.

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Gulliver's Travels· 1726↑ open

Diderot's work extends Swift's method of using encounters with vastly different societies (even if culturally rather than extraterrestrially 'alien') to expose the absurdities and hypocrisies of the traveler's own world.

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