Robinsonian

English Etymology From en Robinson ian. Pronunciation en /ˌɹɒbɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/ RP en /ˌɹɑbɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ GA en əʊniən 5 Adjective Suggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island. en Crusoean Crusoesque Robinsonesque en Y[itzhak] Ben Aharon Hagshamah Listen, Gentile! The Story of a Life London Staples Press Limited 1947 part 2 (The Rebel) 86 https://archive.org/details/listengentilesto0000yitz/page/86/mode/1up 1020663 Before the assembly had recovered from the stir caused by Chick’s farewell, a new wave of surprise swept the crowd: for Levy had given the word to Eleazar, popularly known as Crusoe on account of his Robinsonian escapades and physique. en w:Félix Martí Ibáñez Friends for the Road Félix Martí Ibáñez International Record of Medicine:A Journal of Advanced Experimental and Clinical Reports 172 8 (whole 2918) New York, N.Y. MD Publications, Inc. August 1959 183 https://archive.org/details/sim_international-record-of-medicine_1959-08_172_2918/page/183/mode/1up In this sensitive book we can live step by step the author’s voluntary exile at Walden Pond, witness and feel the change of seasons in his Robinsonian isolation: the silver petals of the snow silently drifting to the ground, en Murray N[ewton] Rothbard A Crusoe Social Philosophy w:The Ethics of Liberty New York, N.Y. w:New York University Press 1982 2002 29 https://archive.org/details/ethicsofliberty00roth/page/29/mode/1up 0-8147-7506-3 The bringing in of “Friday,” or of one or more other persons, after analysis of strictly Robinsonian isolation, then serves to show how the addition of other persons affects the discussion. en w:Rodrigo Fresán w:Natasha Wimmer The Invader Kensington Gardens New York, N.Y. w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 2006 162 https://archive.org/details/kensingtongarden00fres/page/162/mode/1up 978-0-374-18101-7 Magic Alex (born Yannis Alexis Mardas, television repairman and genius in residence at Apple Electronics at the expense of the increasingly chaotic finances of his four bosses; a feverish swindler working on the creation of stereo surround-sound wallpaper and the construction of a floating communal house on the Greek island of Leslo so the Beatles could live there with their families; and who knows, maybe that Robinsonian project was abandoned after what happened to my parents at sea); en w:Andrea Wulf Art, Ecology and Nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science London John Murray 2015 2016 part V (New Worlds: Evolving Ideas) 301 https://archive.org/details/inventionofnatur0000wulf_t9g0/page/301/mode/1up 978-1-84854-900-5 Once he had reached the tropics, he would leave the ship and begin his ‘Robinsonian project’. en w:Andrew Lambert The Magical Island of Daniel Defoe Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness London w:Faber & Faber 2016 52 https://archive.org/details/crusoesislandric0000lamb_z9d6/page/52/mode/1up 978-0-571-33023-2 There is no cave in any Selkirk narrative; he lived in a hut made of sticks and grass. Crusoe lived in a fortified cave, a residence suitable for a colonial overlord in savage lands, not an unarmed maroon expecting to be rescued by English sailors. Indeed the whole island has been reimagined by later visitors to satisfy Robinsonian dreams, without taking the trouble to separate fact and fiction. en Christopher Peterson Listing Toward Cosmocracy: The Limits of Hospitality Monkey Trouble: The Scandal of Posthumanism New York, N.Y. w:Fordham University Press 2018 113–114 https://archive.org/details/monkeytroublesca0000chri/page/114/mode/1up 978-0-8232-7780-3 If democracy is sustained by an irremediable autoimmunitary conflict between freedom and equality, then the “perfect” democracy would require the complete erasure of alterity: a Robinsonian isolation whereby “equality” would be fully reconciled with an unconditional, sovereign freedom. Related terms en Heath Robinsonian en eponyms