num_pages: 260
description: This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates--particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity--and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. The selections are substantive enough to faithfully represent Mandeville the social theorist, and compact enough to be used in courses that can afford to spend no more than a week on his work.
language: English
title: The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings
titlecomplete: The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings (Hackett Classics)
genres: Sociology, Literature, History, Classics, Economics, Philosophy, 18th Century, Poetry, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 217
series: La fable des abeilles
publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.