The Enlightenment's Fable
The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society(Series Number 31 Ideas in Context)

The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society(Series Number 31 Ideas in Context)


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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.

Table of Contents:
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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'Whenever anyone speaks, without bitterness ... of man as a belly with two needs and a head with one; when ever anyone sees, seeks and wants to see only hunger, sexual desire, and vanity, as though these were the actual and sole motives of human actions; in brief, whenever anyone speaks 'badly' of man - but does not speak ill of him - the lover of knowledge should listen carefully and with diligence.' Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 'Though words be the signs we have of another's opinions and intentions; yet, because of the equivocation of them is so frequent according to the diversity of contexture, and the company wherewith they go (which the presence of him that speaketh, our sight of his actions and conjecture of his intentions, must help to discharge us of): It must be extremely hard to find out the opinions and meanings of those men that are gone from us long ago, and have left us no other signification thereof but their books; which cannot possibly be undertook without history enough to discover those aforementioned circumstances, and also without great prudence to observe them. Hobbes, Human Nature


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521619424
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521619424
  • Publisher Date: 17 Feb 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Series Title: Series Number 31 Ideas in Context
  • Sub Title: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
  • Width: 150 mm


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