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Cruel Delight.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steintrager, James A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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