Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness - Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

List of contents

Contents

Introduction: After the Summum Bonum: Eighteenth-Century
Enquiries after Happiness
1. The Moral in Phutatorius's Breeches: Stoicism, Subjectivism
and the Possibilities of Happiness in Tristram Shandy
2. "Vous croyez que le même bonheur est fait pour tous":
Ethics and Singularity in Le Neveu de Rameau
3. Tragic Eudaimonism: Social Contradictions and the
Problem of Happiness in Rousseau's Julie
4. The Politics of Happiness: Caleb Williams, Political Justice
and the Nature of Human Goods
5. Rethinking Autonomy: Emma Courtney, Feminist Ethics
and the Question of Independence
Conclusion: The Art of Life in the Age of Enlightenment
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Brian Michael Norton is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, Fullerton.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Michael Norton
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2012
• EAN: 9781611484304
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-430-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 418 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies