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The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society - Ideas in Context
Hundert, E. J. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society - Ideas in Context
Hundert, E. J. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.
300 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 17, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780521619424 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Dimensions | 228 × 154 × 24 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
Series Editor | Daston, Lorraine |
Series Editor | Ross, Dorothy |
Series Editor | Skinner, Quentin |
Series Editor | Tully, James |