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Envy /
Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends in shriveling the heart. Of the seven deadly si...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[New York] : Oxford ; New York :
New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Seven deadly sins.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Not jealousy
- Spotting the envious
- Secret vice
- Is beauty friendless?
- The glittering prizes
- The young, God damn them
- Knavery's plain face
- Under capitalism man envies man; under socialism, vice versa
- Our good friends, the Jews
- Enjoying the fall
- Resentment by any other name
- Is envying human nature?
- Professional envy
- Poor mental hygiene.