Bernard Mandeville: 9 books
by Bernard Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Bernard Mandeville was best known for The Fable of the Bees, in which he demolishes the supposed moral basis of society by a Hobbesian demonstration that civilization depends on vice. Today Mandeville is seen as a trenchant satirist of the manners and foibles of his age. He is also seen as a precursor...
The Fable of the Bees
Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
If you think 18th century economic philosophy is by definition dry and boring, check out Bernard Mandeville's 1714 poem "The Fable of the Bees." It espouses the benefits of selfishness as a way of increasing economic prosperity -- a common enough idea today, but one that was so scandalous at the time...
by Bernard Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the extended edition including * an extensive biography and bibliography of Mr. de Mandeville The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits is a book by Bernard Mandeville, consisting of the poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest and prose discussion of it. The poem...
by Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the...
Die Blumen der Mode
Klassische und neue Texte zur Philosophie der Mode
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Mode und Kleidung als vielschichtiges Mittel des Selbstausdrucks und der Kommunikation fasziniert Schriftsteller, Philosophen und Soziologen gleichermaßen. Der Band versammelt 45 essentielle Schriften vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, jeweils kenntnisreich eingeleitet von Barbara Vinken. Schon immer...
by Bernard Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Bernard Mandeville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
THE I take it for granted, that a Christian is not bound to believe any Thing to have been of Divine Institution, that has not been declared to be such in Holy Writ. Yet great Offence has been taken at an Essay, in the First Part of the Fable of the Bees, call’d An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral...
La fable des abeilles
Recherches sur l’origine de la vertu morale ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
La Fable des abeilles développe dans une veine satirique la thèse de l’utilité sociale de l’égoïsme. Elle avance, préfigurant Nietzsche, que toutes les lois sociales résultent de la volonté égoïste des faibles de se soutenir mutuellement en se protégeant des plus forts. Au sujet du...