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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... 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? Is hypocrisy the limit case for politeness? Does hypocrisy work ...
... 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? Is hypocrisy the limit case for politeness? Does hypocrisy work ...
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... rewards . “ Men are qualified for civil liberty , " Burke says , " in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . " 26 Self - control is never synonymous with hypocrisy , of course , and Burke ...
... rewards . “ Men are qualified for civil liberty , " Burke says , " in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . " 26 Self - control is never synonymous with hypocrisy , of course , and Burke ...
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... reward hypocrisy , especially in the form of occasional conformity , defined by the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) as “ a phrase applied after 1700 to the practice of persons who , in order to qualify themselves for office , in ...
... reward hypocrisy , especially in the form of occasional conformity , defined by the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) as “ a phrase applied after 1700 to the practice of persons who , in order to qualify themselves for office , in ...
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... Rewarded (1740–1741) and Austen's Mans- field Park (1814), which returns to many of the issues defined by Pamela. Chapter 2 traces the development by writers of the Scottish Enlightenment of a vocabulary for talking about political ...
... Rewarded (1740–1741) and Austen's Mans- field Park (1814), which returns to many of the issues defined by Pamela. Chapter 2 traces the development by writers of the Scottish Enlightenment of a vocabulary for talking about political ...
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... rewards on virtue and its simulacra alike, and the rhetorical success of Swift's Projectdepends in a very real sense on his careful management of two terms. One of these is hypocrisy. The other is livery, a word whose signification in ...
... rewards on virtue and its simulacra alike, and the rhetorical success of Swift's Projectdepends in a very real sense on his careful management of two terms. One of these is hypocrisy. The other is livery, a word whose signification in ...
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 |
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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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