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| Titel: |
Pride, hypocrisy and civility in Mandeville's social and historical theory |
| Auteur: |
Dickey, Laurence |
| Verschenen in: |
Critical review |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 4 (1990) nr. 3 pagina's 387-431 |
| Jaar: |
1990 |
| Inhoud: |
This paper seeks to show that Bernard Mandeville's primary purpose in The Fable of the Bees was to historicize the concept of self-love (amour-propre) articulated by seventeenth-century French Jansenists and moralistes; that in doing so Mandeville constructed a theory designed to explain the inter-subjective constraints and forces of social discipline which characterize commercial societies; and that a full understanding of Mandeville's achievement depends upon an appreciation of the way in which pride in his theory becomes socialized into hypocrisy at a decisive moment in the civilizing process, a moment after which, Mandeville argues, cultural institutions themselves can contain that unfettered self-interest which his contemporaries fearfully associated with the triumph of commerce. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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