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THE ENLIGHTENMENT'S FABLE
BERNARD MANDEVILLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF SOCIETY |
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E. J. Hundert, Quentin Skinner, Lorraine Daston |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521460824 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521460828 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 June, 1994 |
| Series: |
Ideas in Context No. 31 |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Description: |
Study of influence of Anglo-Dutch Enlightenment theorist, author of infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits'. |
| Synopsis: |
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bonds of envy, competition, and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenment's 'Fable' approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by the Anglo-Dutch physician, satirist and philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. Mandeville's infamous paradoxical maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his Fable of the Bees had a decisive influence on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the sources and strategies of Mandeville's science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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