Enlightened pleasures
Subtitle: eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism
By: Thomas M. Kavanagh.
Series: The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Publisher: Yale University Press; Annie Burr Lewis Fund
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300140941
Subjects: Philosophy, French -- 18th century; France -- Civilization -- Greek influences; Epicureans (Greek philosophy); Pleasure; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A new epicureanism; title: The pleasures of failure : Jourdan's Le guerrier philosophe; title: Mirroring pleasure : La Morlière's Angola; title: Life-writing as Epicurean allegory : Thérèse philosophe; title: The esthetics of pleasure : Du Bos and Boucher; title: Rousseau's Eudemony of liberty; title: Laclos' Anthropology of pleasure; title: Recasting the Epicurean novel : Mirabeau's La morale des sens; title: Theaters of pleasure; title: Conclusion: From pleasure to happiness.