Putting on virtue : the legacy of the splendid vices / Jennifer A. Herdt.
2008
179.9 H541p 2008
On loan from 3rd Floor, due 27. Jan 2027
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Title
Putting on virtue : the legacy of the splendid vices / Jennifer A. Herdt.
Author
ISBN
9780226327242 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226327248 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226327248 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xi, 454 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
179.9 H541p 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)213408525
(OCoLC)213408525
(OCoLC)213408525
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-431) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues
Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation
Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride
Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue
Part II: Mimetic virtue
Erasmus : putting on Christ
The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous
Part III: The exodus from virtue
Luther : saved hypocrites
Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination
Part IV: The anatomy of virtue
Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal
Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville
Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy
Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity
Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride
Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity.
Part I: Splendid vices and imperfect virtues
Aristotle and the puzzles of habituation
Augustine : disordered loves and the problem of pride
Aquinas : making space for pagan virtue
Part II: Mimetic virtue
Erasmus : putting on Christ
The Jesuit theatrical tradition : acting virtuous
Part III: The exodus from virtue
Luther : saved hypocrites
Bunyan and Puritan life-writing : the virtue of self-examination
Part IV: The anatomy of virtue
Jesuits and Jansenists : Gracián and Pascal
Emancipating worldly virtue : Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Mandeville
Part V: Pagan virtue and modern moral philosophy
Rousseau and the virtue of authenticity
Hume and the bourgeois rehabilitation of pride
Kant and the pursuit of noumenal purity.
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