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Best books to read after Dieu by Victor Hugo
Hugo's most systematically philosophical poem (posthumous 1891) — a dialogue between embodied worldviews about the nature of God, culminating in a pantheistic vision of Light that transcends all partial religious perspectives. If this ambitious theological poetry fascinated you, these books explore similar territory.
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Buy on AmazonLa Fin de Satan
by Victor Hugo
The companion philosophical poem — La Fin de Satan explores what happens when evil exists in the universe whose ultimate nature Dieu describes; reading the two together gives Hugo's complete philosophical theology.
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La Légende des siècles
by Victor Hugo
The philosophical epic that dramatizes the history implicit in Dieu — the moral progress of humanity from darkness to light that Dieu describes as the universe's ultimate structure.
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Buy on AmazonLes Contemplations
by Victor Hugo
The great lyric collection that develops the same theological ideas in a more accessible and personal register — Books V and VI of Les Contemplations are the lyric elaboration of the argument Dieu makes systematically.
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Traité théologico-politique
by Baruch Spinoza
Spinoza's great philosophical text — the pantheistic philosopher whose identification of God with nature provides the closest philosophical precedent for Hugo's vision of the Light in Dieu.
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Buy on AmazonFragments d'un discours amoureux
by Roland Barthes
Barthes's structural analysis — a different approach to the same question of how language can approach what is fundamentally beyond its reach, which is the structural problem of Dieu.
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Buy on AmazonDe la nature
by Lucrèce
Lucretius's philosophical poem — the Roman Epicurean's attempt to understand the universe through reason and observation, which provides the classical model for the systematic philosophical poem that Dieu attempts to secularize.
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Buy on AmazonBhagavad Gita
by Anonymous
The Hindu philosophical poem — the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna provides the closest structural parallel to Dieu's dialogue between the Voice and the embodied worldviews, with a similarly universalist ultimate perspective.
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Buy on AmazonWilliam Shakespeare
by Victor Hugo
Hugo's critical essay — the theoretical argument about genius and prophecy that explains the philosophical ambition of Dieu; the geniuses in William Shakespeare are the human mediators of the same Light that Dieu describes as the ultimate reality.
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