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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... civility . Among the advocates of politeness are writers like Swift , Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization . Their arguments for civility are sometimes so extreme , how- ever , as to constitute outright defenses of ...
... civility . Among the advocates of politeness are writers like Swift , Hume and Burke who make manners the basis of civilization . Their arguments for civility are sometimes so extreme , how- ever , as to constitute outright defenses of ...
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... Civility's opponents tend to attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a series of questions about texts by Locke, Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chester ...
... Civility's opponents tend to attack the forms of exclusion (often based on gender or class) on which civility as a premise depends. Chapters 1 and 2 pose a series of questions about texts by Locke, Swift, Mandeville, Hume and Chester ...
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... civility , decorum , self - control , politeness . To defend hypocrisy under its own name means breaking a taboo , and a strong incentive is required to risk the outrage such a defense is likely to provoke . One incentive may simply be ...
... civility , decorum , self - control , politeness . To defend hypocrisy under its own name means breaking a taboo , and a strong incentive is required to risk the outrage such a defense is likely to provoke . One incentive may simply be ...
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... civility and politeness . While John F. Kasson's book on nineteenth - century American manners allows a token importance to “ the virtues of civility , ” which he identifies as an important prerequisite for democratic society , he ...
... civility and politeness . While John F. Kasson's book on nineteenth - century American manners allows a token importance to “ the virtues of civility , ” which he identifies as an important prerequisite for democratic society , he ...
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... Civility is hard-wired into the eighteenth-century political discourse out of which the American state is constituted. In response to Judith Shklar's question – “how much frankness does democracy actually require?” – I will suggest that ...
... Civility is hard-wired into the eighteenth-century political discourse out of which the American state is constituted. In response to Judith Shklar's question – “how much frankness does democracy actually require?” – I will suggest that ...
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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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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