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Fiction and the philosophy of happiness : ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
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Fiction and the philosophy of happiness : ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment / Brian Michael Norton.
ISBN
9781611484304 (cloth : alk. paper)
1611484308 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611484311 (ebook)
1611484316 (ebook)
Published
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
Physical Description
viii, 159 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2013
Series
Transits : literature, thought & culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The moral in Phutatorius's breeches: stoicism, subjectivism, and the possibilities of happiness in Tristram Shandy
"Vous croyez que le même bonheur est fait pour tous": ethics and singularity in Le neveu de Rameau
Tragic eudaimonism: social contradictions and the problem of happiness in Rousseau"s Julie
The politics of happiness: Caleb Williams, political justice, and the nature of human goods
Rethinking autonomy: Emma Courtney, feminist ethics, and the question of independence
Conclusion: the art of life in the Age of Enlightenment.
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