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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Hardcover)
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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Hardcover)
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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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