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Regulating Confusion : Samuel Johnson and the Crowd /

With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English Society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a form of political thought divorced from traditional moral reflection. In Regulating Confusion Thomas Rei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reinert, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Desire for Fame
  • Periodical Moralizing
  • The Vanity ofHuman Wishes
  • Exemplary Self-Sacrifice
  • Probability and Conjecture.