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Author: Voltaire,Diane Johnson,Peter Constantine
Publisher: Modern Library (January 18, 2005)
Language: English
Pages: 144
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Items related to Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics). Home Voltaire; Translator-Peter Constantine; Introduction-Diane. Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics). The transformation of Candide’s outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaire’s philosophy–that even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survival–but not before providing us with one of literature’s great and rare pleasures. Candide is such a book.
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Candide: or, Optimism (Paperback). Published October 11th 2005 by Modern Library. Paperback, 144 pages. Author(s): Voltaire, Peter Constantine (Translator). Diane Johnson (Introduction). ISBN: 0812972015 (ISBN13: 9780812972016). Candide: Or Optimism (Hardcover). Published August 20th 2014 by Penguin Books. Hardcover, 224 pages.
Voltaire’s target throughout Candide is not optimism in the sense of fatuous cheerfulness but optimism in the sense of optimal thinking: the kind of bland reassurance that explains pain with reference to a larger plan or history. In this way, the Christmas tsunami cannot have for Voltaire’s readers today anything approaching the force that a natural disaster like the Lisbon earthquake had for the eighteenth century. Few people any longer believe in a benevolent nature-much less a benevolent nature sitting in for a providential God.
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme (/kɒnˈdiːd/ kon-DEED, French: (listen)) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947).
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