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Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kavanagh, Thomas M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund, [2010]
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Philosophy, French > 18th century.
France > Civilization > Greek influences.
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Pleasure.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
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.