The Passions and the Interests
Uitgeverij: | Princeton University Press |
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Uitvoering: | Paperback |
Taal: | Engels |
Staat van het boek: | Licht beschadigd |
Aantal Pagina's: | 192 |
Afmetingen: | 142x214x13 |
Verschijningsdatum: | Oktober 2013 |
EAN: | 9780691160252 |
Omschrijving
Reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests - so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice - was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man.