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Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman /
Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253110696 9780253110695 0253343674 9780253343673 0253216494 9780253216496 128207136X 9781282071360 |