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Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island

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Robinson Crusoe's Political Parable

Andreas: Would you say at this point that Robinson Crusoe could be read as a sort of political parable? I think that's certainly present in the text that default works through some of those ideas. This is a period where the idea of what government ought to look like had been debated quite intensely, he says.

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