Format:
Online-Ressource (238 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107014640
Content:
Stanley argues that the French philosophes reveal the possibility of a democratically hospitable form of cynicism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Problem of Cynicism; Why Enlightenment?; Outline of Chapters; PART I: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 1: Enlightenment as Disillusionment; Enlightenment and Religion; Enlightenment and System Building; Enlightenment Materialism and Morality; 2: Unraveling Natural Utopia: Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville and the Legacy of Cynicism; Nature versus Culture; La Nouvelle Cythère: Tahiti as Paradise; Rethinking Nature
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The Critique of Moralism and the Revenge of Modern Cynicism3: The Dark Side of Sociability: Philosophes and Libertines; The Practice and Ideal of Sociability; Libertinism and Cynicism; Theatricality; The Pursuit of Pleasure; Public Opinion; No Escape; 4: The Leveling Power of Commerce; From Social to Economic Commerce; The Cynicism of Commerce; Commerce and Theatricality; Commerce and Exploitation; The Cynicism of Commodification; 5: Hermits and Cynics: Rousseau and Rameau's Nephew; Life in the Modern World; The Cynicism of Rameau's Nephew; Rousseau and the Fear of Cynicism
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Rousseau the Hermit: The Morality of Personal RedemptionPART II: THE PRESENT; 6: From Enlightenment to Postmodernism; Diagnosing Postmodern Cynicism; The Postmodern Enlightenment; The End of History?; 7: Disenchanted Democracy and the Ineradicability of Cynicism; Cynicism against Democracy; Cynical Sociability and Democracy; Disenchanted Democracy; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139338646
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107014640
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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