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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... letter code in the Library of Congress system ) .23 Both ethics and etiquette have a special relationship to practice : as Dale Carnegie says of How to Win Friends and Influence People ( 1936 ) , " this is an action book . " 24 ...
... letter code in the Library of Congress system ) .23 Both ethics and etiquette have a special relationship to practice : as Dale Carnegie says of How to Win Friends and Influence People ( 1936 ) , " this is an action book . " 24 ...
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... Letters to His Son ( 1774 ) . The canon of the self - help book remains in many ways more constant than the literary canon . In a tradition going back beyond Chesterfield and Machiavelli to Cicero , writers as diverse as Samuel Smiles ...
... Letters to His Son ( 1774 ) . The canon of the self - help book remains in many ways more constant than the literary canon . In a tradition going back beyond Chesterfield and Machiavelli to Cicero , writers as diverse as Samuel Smiles ...
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... letters of recommendation for students , as is Stephen L. Carter in his investigation of the competing claims of sincerity and benevolence.29 The eighteenth century had a different list of the most damaging forms of insincerity . The ...
... letters of recommendation for students , as is Stephen L. Carter in his investigation of the competing claims of sincerity and benevolence.29 The eighteenth century had a different list of the most damaging forms of insincerity . The ...
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... letter. Many dissenters objected to such apparently innocent conventions, singling out in addition the answer commonly made by a servant to an unwanted visitor that the master or mistress is “not at home.” I will argue that the presence ...
... letter. Many dissenters objected to such apparently innocent conventions, singling out in addition the answer commonly made by a servant to an unwanted visitor that the master or mistress is “not at home.” I will argue that the presence ...
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... Letters to his Son ( 1774 ) , whose reception provides a case study for testing Hume's theorization of gender and politeness , I show that women successfully appropriate the topic of manners in spite of the fact that the rhetoric of ...
... Letters to his Son ( 1774 ) , whose reception provides a case study for testing Hume's theorization of gender and politeness , I show that women successfully appropriate the topic of manners in spite of the fact that the rhetoric of ...
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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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