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The enlightenment's fable : Bernard Mandeville and the discovery of society /
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bonds of envy, competition, and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenment's 'Fable' approache...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The foundations of a project. Egoism, politics and society. Dutch republicans and French devots. Medicine and morals. Toward a science of socialized man
- 2. Self-love and the civilizing process. The history of pride. Hutcheson's polemic and Hume's critique. Rhetoric and the emergence of civility. The French connection. Rousseau in Mandeville's shadow
- 3. Performance principles of the public sphere. Manners, morals and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Bishop Butler and the pursuit of happiness. Theatrum mundi. Henry Fielding at the Mandevillian masquerade. The discourse of the passions at its limits
- 4. A world of goods. From hypocrisy to emulation. Labor and luxury. Homo economica and her double
- 5. Imposing closure
- Adam Smith's problem
- Epilogue: The Fable's modern fate.