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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... offers one of the eigh- teenth century's most persuasive challenges to the ethos of politeness – challenge framed in terms of gender, and one that is in many ways more sus- tainable than Godwin's wholesale attack on insincerity – I ...
... offers one of the eigh- teenth century's most persuasive challenges to the ethos of politeness – challenge framed in terms of gender, and one that is in many ways more sus- tainable than Godwin's wholesale attack on insincerity – I ...
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... offers a powerful alter- native to the language of subjectivity for describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into and representation within linguistic, cultural ...
... offers a powerful alter- native to the language of subjectivity for describing the various political and psychological concessions made by men and women in the quest for integration into and representation within linguistic, cultural ...
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... offers a different vocab- ulary for talking about hypocrisy , a vocabulary that usually corresponds to a distinct ethical orientation . Philosophy's antagonism to hypocrisy goes back to Plato , but its preference for morals as opposed ...
... offers a different vocab- ulary for talking about hypocrisy , a vocabulary that usually corresponds to a distinct ethical orientation . Philosophy's antagonism to hypocrisy goes back to Plato , but its preference for morals as opposed ...
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... offers a “ good enough ” approxima- tion of virtue . Of course , ethics also has a how - to component , and the intimacy between ethics and etiquette is long - standing ( it is hardly surpris- ing that the subjects should share a single ...
... offers a “ good enough ” approxima- tion of virtue . Of course , ethics also has a how - to component , and the intimacy between ethics and etiquette is long - standing ( it is hardly surpris- ing that the subjects should share a single ...
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... offers a litany of the insincerities that erode civic life , including white lies , excuses , justification , lies in a crisis , lies protecting professional peers or clients , lies for the public good , deceptive social science ...
... offers a litany of the insincerities that erode civic life , including white lies , excuses , justification , lies in a crisis , lies protecting professional peers or clients , lies for the public good , deceptive social science ...
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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