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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steintrager, James A., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
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