Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism /

"Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kavanagh, Thomas M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund, [2010]
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Temas:
1700-1799
Philosophy, French > 18th century.
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Pleasure.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Philosophie française > 18e siècle.
Épicuriens.
Plaisir.
Littérature française > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Civilization > Greek influences
French literature
Intellectual life
Philosophy, French
Pleasure
Aufklärung
Epikureismus
Französisch
Genuss > Motiv
Literatur
Epikureismus.
Aufklärung.
Französisch.
Literatur.
Genuss.
Motiv.
Upplysningen > Frankrike.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Civilization > Greek influences.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France
Frankreich
Frankreich.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A new epicureanism
  • The pleasures of failure : Jourdan's Le guerrier philosophe
  • Mirroring pleasure : La Morlière's Angola
  • Life-writing as Epicurean allegory : Thérèse philosophe
  • The esthetics of pleasure : Du Bos and Boucher
  • Rousseau's Eudemony of liberty
  • Laclos' Anthropology of pleasure
  • Recasting the Epicurean novel : Mirabeau's La morale des sens
  • Theaters of pleasure
  • Conclusion: From pleasure to happiness.

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