Pride, Manners, and Morals

Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour

AvAndrea Branchi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del 334 i serien Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker’s philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville’s anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability.By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville’s theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville’s studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-02
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:475 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004194519

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Andrea Branchi, Ph.D., teaches for American university programs in Italy and writes for Italian and international producers of historical documentaries. He has published a monograph and several articles on Bernard Mandeville.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Chastity and Courage2 Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of HonourPrologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London1 Mandeville’s Continental Background1 Mandeville’s Female Voices1 The Century of Sex2 The Virgin Unmask’d3 Female Education. “What Girls Should Do with Latin?”2 The Oxford Gentleman and Philopirio1 Living Dead and Public Benefactors2 The Duel of Honour3 Medicine and Philosophy: The Hypp’d Nation3 The Political Offspring of Pride1 Powerful Persuasions2 Men of Fashion, Bullies in Morality3 Natural and Artificial Courage3 Politeness and Virtue1 Mandeville’s Rise to Fame2 Hypocrisy and Self-deception3 The Ticklish Foundation of Female Virtue4 Cleomenes and Horatio1 Portrait of a Complete Gentleman2 Self-liking and the Origin of Politeness3 A Conjectural History of Sociability6 Modern Honour and the Cult of the Self1 Martial Virtue2 The History of Pride3 Mandeville’s ChallengeConclusionsBibliographyIndex