Enlightenment''s Fable - Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society

Klappentext The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected to one another only by bonds of envy, competition and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville! whose infamous maxim 'private vices! public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries! and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume! Rousseau! Kant! and Adam Smith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Introduction and agenda; 1. The foundations of a project; 2. Self-love and the civilizing process; 3. Performance principles of the public sphere; 4. A world of goods; 5. Imposing closure - Adam Smith's problem; Epilogue: The Fable's modern fate; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: E. J. Hundert, E. J. (University of British Columbia Hundert, E.j. Hundert
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619424
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61942-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries