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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... important difference between texts that name hypocrisy and dissimulation without disavowing them and texts that avow something very like hypocrisy under another name ( chivalry , gallantry , politeness , self - restraint ) . Books on ...
... important difference between texts that name hypocrisy and dissimulation without disavowing them and texts that avow something very like hypocrisy under another name ( chivalry , gallantry , politeness , self - restraint ) . Books on ...
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... important part of the story I tell here is how and why the thing called “ tact ” should go from being stigmatized at the beginning of the eighteenth century as a vice associated with effete male French aristocrats to being embraced at ...
... important part of the story I tell here is how and why the thing called “ tact ” should go from being stigmatized at the beginning of the eighteenth century as a vice associated with effete male French aristocrats to being embraced at ...
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... importance to “ the virtues of civility , ” which he identifies as an important prerequisite for democratic society , he precludes any deeper exploration of the relationship between civility and democracy by emphasizing that ...
... importance to “ the virtues of civility , ” which he identifies as an important prerequisite for democratic society , he precludes any deeper exploration of the relationship between civility and democracy by emphasizing that ...
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... important advantage over their masters, that of being by far the more opaque.38 In the case of servants, observing that they are largely unreadable to their masters does not neces- sarily imply sympathy for the servants' point of view ...
... important advantage over their masters, that of being by far the more opaque.38 In the case of servants, observing that they are largely unreadable to their masters does not neces- sarily imply sympathy for the servants' point of view ...
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... importance of self-command to an education in manners, about the nature and obligations of sociability and about the threat posed to public virtue and polite culture by the existence of a numerous and increasingly vocal servant class ...
... importance of self-command to an education in manners, about the nature and obligations of sociability and about the threat posed to public virtue and polite culture by the existence of a numerous and increasingly vocal servant class ...
Contenido
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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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