Enlightened pleasures: Eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the eraput the experience of pleasure at the centre of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics.

• ISBN: 978-0-300-14094-1
• Editorial: Yale University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés