Cruel Delight Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman

Name: Cruel Delight Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman
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ISBN: 9780253110695

ISBN-10: 0253110696

ISBN-13: 9780253110695

Edition: 2004

Authors: James A. Steintrager

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"An important contribution to studies of eighteenth-century culture and to literary history and theory and for those with an interest in horror, sentimentality, the invention of the modern individual, and ethics of 'the human.'" -Daniel Cottom, David A. Burr Chair of Letters, University of Oklahoma Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman investigates the fascination with joyful malice in eighteenth-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and…

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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2004
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 232
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long
Language: English

James A. Steintrager received his M.A. in French and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He teaches English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He has published articles and essays on Enlightenment philosophy, poststructuralist theory, and libertine fiction, and is now writing a study on pleasure as a social system.