Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to AustenCambridge University Press, 2004 M05 6 - 242 páginas In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and politeness, Davidson argues that eighteenth-century writers from Locke to Austen come down firmly on the side of politeness. This is the case even when it is associated with dissimulation or hypocrisy. These writers argue that the open profession of vice is far more dangerous for society than even the most glaring discrepancies between what people say in public and what they do in private. This book explores what happens when controversial arguments in favour of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between hypocrisy and more obviously attractive qualities like modesty, self-control and tact. |
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... Swift and Burke respectively. To each of them I owe an immense intellectual debt. For their encouragement, suggestions and/or comments on drafts, I would like to thank the following: Irene Adams, Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Jim Basker ...
... Swift and Burke respectively. To each of them I owe an immense intellectual debt. For their encouragement, suggestions and/or comments on drafts, I would like to thank the following: Irene Adams, Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Jim Basker ...
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... Swift's Servant Problem,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 105–125; “'Professed Enemies of Politeness': Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning PoliticalJustice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication ...
... Swift's Servant Problem,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 105–125; “'Professed Enemies of Politeness': Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning PoliticalJustice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication ...
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... Swift, Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization. Their arguments for civility are sometimes so extreme, however, as to constitute outright defenses of hypocrisy, and hence become vulnerable to attack. While initially ...
... Swift, Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization. Their arguments for civility are sometimes so extreme, however, as to constitute outright defenses of hypocrisy, and hence become vulnerable to attack. While initially ...
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... Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chesterfield. What are the risks and rewards of defending hypocrisy? What does a successful argument in favor of hypocrisy look like? Must arguments for hypocrisy always remain ambivalent or self-defeating ...
... Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chesterfield. What are the risks and rewards of defending hypocrisy? What does a successful argument in favor of hypocrisy look like? Must arguments for hypocrisy always remain ambivalent or self-defeating ...
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... Swift and others, quoted briefly below and discussed at greater length in chapter 1. The argument for habit as second nature extends into nineteenth-century moral and political writing from Burke and Wordsworth to William James, who ...
... Swift and others, quoted briefly below and discussed at greater length in chapter 1. The argument for habit as second nature extends into nineteenth-century moral and political writing from Burke and Wordsworth to William James, who ...
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chapter two Gallantry adultery and the principles of politeness | 46 |
chapter three Revolutions in female manners | 76 |
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded | 108 |
a modest question about Mansfield Park | 146 |
coda Politeness and its costs | 170 |
Notes | 180 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 230 |
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ... Jenny Davidson Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ... Jenny Davidson Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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