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Cruel Delight - Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman (Hardcover)
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Cruel Delight - Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman (Hardcover)
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"Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman" investigates
cruelty and its contribution to concepts of the human in the
Enlightenment culture of the eighteenth century. It reveals the way
that cruelty moved from being an inherently inhuman act that
undermines the humanity of the perpetrator to an eminently human
trait stemming from human agency and reason. Mindful of the
widespread critique of the Enlightenment and its conception of the
human, James A. Steintrager draws from original sources in art,
philosophy, and literature to illustrate the shifts and turns taken
by the concepts of cruelty and moral monstrosity.His discussion
ranges from ethical philosophy, and how it elaborated a notion of
moral monstrosity within an ethics of sentimentality, to depictions
of cruelty - of children mistreating animals, scientists engaged in
vivisections, and the painful procedures of early surgery - in
works like William Hogarth's "The Four Stages of Cruelty, to the
conflict between human sympathy and human freedom illustrated by
the work of the Marquis de Sade. In each instance, the wish to deny
cruelty a place within the human is matched by the strength of its
continued existence as one of the human passions. "Cruel Delight"
shows how the category of the inhuman in sentimental ethics was
eventually transformed into a humanity of a higher order and how
the ability to choose cruelty and ignore pity became a sign of
human freedom.
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