Cruel delight :: enlightenment culture and the inhuman /

Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure...

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1. Verfasser: Steintrager, James A., 1965-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
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Zusammenfassung:Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.
ISBN:0253110696
9780253110695
0253343674
9780253343673
0253216494
9780253216496
128207136X
9781282071360

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