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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,739
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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Hardcover): Patrick Coleman

Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Hardcover)

Patrick Coleman

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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social appropriateness of anger and gratitude in regulating social life. Emotions are social transactions, with rules identifying when and where it is appropriate to express one's feelings and, especially in the case of anger and gratitude, who is allowed or expected to put them on display. Defining the kinds of slight or favor that demand an angry or a grateful response became problematic in eighteenth-century France under the pressure of two contradictory developments which were both crucial to Enlightenment thinking about sociability. The first drew on the ideal of moral equality as it spread beyond the salons to the social world at large. Writers claimed for themselves an entitlement to anger at personal slight that had been hitherto reserved for aristocrats, and a respectful hearing for their indignation at public injustice despite their lack of official standing. The philosophes also argued their writing made them social benefactors in their own right, more deserving of their readers' gratitude than obliged to any patron. The second gave a new twist to longstanding philosophical notions about transcending emotional disturbance and dependence altogether. A personal ideal became a public goal as Enlightenment thinkers imagined a society where all significant social interaction was governed by the impersonal rule of law. Occasions for personal slight or obligation would disappear, and with them reasons for anger and gratitude. Instead of serving as a model of emotional legitimacy, authors would derive their prestige from their rationality and objectivity. By exploring the interplay between these two attitudes toward anger and gratitude this book provides a fresh perspective on the French Enlightenment.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2011
First published: March 2011
Authors: Patrick Coleman
Dimensions: 223 x 142 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-958934-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN: 0-19-958934-8
Barcode: 9780199589340

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