No Tomorrow

The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

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Cusset, Catherine

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

224 Seiten

Englisch

University of Virginia Presserschienen am29.02.2016

Traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century. In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls the present enjoyment of the senses. She contends libertine works are linked by an ethics of pleasure that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being.mehr

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KlappentextTraces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century. In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls the present enjoyment of the senses. She contends libertine works are linked by an ethics of pleasure that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8139-3883-7

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

University of Virginia Press

Erscheinungsjahr2016

Erscheinungsdatum29.02.2016

Seiten224 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 13 mm

Gewicht371 g