Державин и религия: Ода “Успокоенное неверие” (1779)

Klein, Joachim Harald

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Державин и религия: Ода “Успокоенное неверие” (1779)

Author(s)

Klein, Joachim Harald

Issue Date

2014-11

Keyword(s)

• Theodicy
• G. R. Derzhavin
• Russian poetry
• religious odes
• Voltaire
• Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne
• Candide

Abstract

Derzhavin's religious ode "Uspokoennoe neverie" is directed against a pessimistic worldview, which developed in Russia under the influence of Voltaires "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" and other writings. In his turn, Voltaire polemicises with a phlosophy of optimism based on Leibniz's Theodicy. In dealing with these questions Derzhavin clearly sides with J.-J. Rousseau's "Lettre sur la Providence" and its criticism o Voltaire's reaction to the earthquake von Lisbon. His own solution of the problem is characterized a spirit of the religious Enlightenment.

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ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 2

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• Copyright 2014 Joachim Harald Klein
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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