The laws of hostility : politics, violence, and the enlightenment

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The laws of hostility : politics, violence, and the enlightenment

Pierre Saint-Amand ; foreword by Chantal Mouffe ; translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage

University of Minnesota Press, c1996

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Les Lois de l'hostilité : la politique à l'âge de lumières

統一タイトル

Lois de l'hostilité

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-174) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780816625857

内容説明

The Marquis de Sade, and not Jean-Jacques Rousseau, may be the truer voice of the Enlightenment. In this reading of the canon of the Enlightenment thinkers from Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot to Rousseau and Sade, the author discusses the hostility that lurks beneath the "philosophes'" progressive rationality. Society and sociability take centre stage in the Enlightenment texts and in current interpretations, but Saint-Amand reveals that reciprocity, the principle behind sociability, is always based on imitation, which inevitably degenerates into competition and rivalry. Probing the excesses of the Enlightenment, he exposes at its heart a crisis of law founded on violence. This book specifically addresses the bad faith of the Enlightenment philosophers in their refusal to consisder the violent origins of society. In their ideology of progress, they idealized communication between individuals in a way that masked the rancour beneath the mechanisms of sociability and commerce. As an alternative, this text emphasizes the antagonisms and conflicts in the representation of social life and the understanding of human experience. The book aims to put into perspective the archaic element of violence from which the Enlightenment tried to divorce itself.

目次

  • Political prejudice (Montesquieu)
  • the spirit of manners (Voltaire)
  • the order of evils (Rousseau)
  • Taking positions (Diderot)
  • the politics of crime (Sade). Epilogue - in praise of peace.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816625864

内容説明

The Marquis de Sade, and not Jean-Jacques Rousseau, may be the truer voice of the Enlightenment. In this reading of the canon of the Enlightenment thinkers from Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot to Rousseau and Sade, the author discusses the hostility that lurks beneath the "philosophes'" progressive rationality. Society and sociability take centre stage in the Enlightenment texts and in current interpretations, but Saint-Amand reveals that reciprocity, the principle behind sociability, is always based on imitation, which inevitably degenerates into competition and rivalry. Probing the excesses of the Enlightenment, he exposes at its heart a crisis of law founded on violence. This book specifically addresses the bad faith of the Enlightenment philosophers in their refusal to consisder the violent origins of society. In their ideology of progress, they idealized communication between individuals in a way that masked the rancour beneath the mechanisms of sociability and commerce. As an alternative, this text emphasizes the antagonisms and conflicts in the representation of social life and the understanding of human experience. The book aims to put into perspective the archaic element of violence from which the Enlightenment tried to divorce itself.

目次

  • Political prejudice (Montesquieu)
  • the spirit of manners (Voltaire)
  • the order of evils (Rousseau)
  • Taking positions (Diderot)
  • the politics of crime (Sade). Epilogue - in praise of peace.

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