Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Fowler, Marine Ganofsky.
• Editors: Fowler, James; Ganofsky, Marine
• Contents: List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations James Fowler and Marine Ganofsky, Introduction: virtue and the secular turn, 1680-1794 Michael Moriarty, Virtue before the Enlightenment Nicholas Treuherz, Vertu et Lumières: Bayle's 'virtuous atheist' and its afterlives James Fowler, Secular virtue: echoes of Shaftesbury in Diderot Alicia C. Montoya, From the religious virtues to Enlightenment virtue Ioana Galleron, Bernard-Joseph Saurin, the comédie de moeurs and the civic function of plays Karen Nehlsen Manna, Acting honnête: effeminacy, masculinity and the ethos of social virtue in Enlightenment comedy Jean-Alexandre Perras, The softness of the petit-maître and the decay of virtus Mathilde Chollet, 'La vera nobiltà non consiste in altro che nella virtù': a woman's view on virtue, or Henriette de Marans's nobility Marine Ganofsky, Virtue and invisibility: libertine variations on the myth of Gyges Lydia Vázquez, Female virtue and bliss in the eighteenth century Pierre Saint-Amand, The politics of virtue: Réflexions sur le procès de la reine by Mme de Staël Patrice Higonnet, Robespierre's virtue in Marx and Tocqueville Daniel Brewer, Virtue and the ethics of the virtual Summaries List of works cited Index.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: History; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; History -- Europe -- France; History -- Modern -- 18th Century; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800346024
• Related ISBNs: 9781789620412
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