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"Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics."--Publisher's description.
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Enlightened pleasures: eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism
2010, Yale University Press, Annie Burr Lewis Fund
in English
0300140940 9780300140941
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A new epicureanism
The pleasures of failure : Jourdan's Le guerrier philosophe
Mirroring pleasure : La Morlière's Angola
Life-writing as Epicurean allegory : Thérèse philosophe
The esthetics of pleasure : Du Bos and Boucher
Rousseau's Eudemony of liberty
Laclos' Anthropology of pleasure
Recasting the Epicurean novel : Mirabeau's La morale des sens
Theaters of pleasure
Conclusion: From pleasure to happiness.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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