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Uncivil mirth : ridicule in enlightenment Britain / Ross Carroll.
By: Carroll, Ross [author.]
.Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2021Description: xiii, 255 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691182551; 9780691220536.Subject(s): Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713 | Enlightenment -- Great Britain | Ridicule | Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 179.8
Contents:
A polite Diogenes? Ridicule in Shaftesbury's politics of toleration -- Sociability, censorship and the limits of ridicule from Shaftesbury to Hutcheson -- Against 'dissolute mirth' : Hume's scepticism about ridicule -- Scoffing at scepticism : ridicule and common sense -- 'Too solemn for laughter'? Scottish abolitionists and the mock apology for slavery -- An education in contempt : ridicule in Wollstonecraft's politics.
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| 179.7 WAR Easeful death : | 179.76 FUR The moral case for abortion / | 179.76 KAC The ethics of abortion : | 179.8 CAR Uncivil mirth : ridicule in enlightenment Britain / | 179.8 CAS Vices of the mind : | 181.06 RAD Radical responsibility : celebrating the thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks / | 190 KEN A new history of Western philosophy : |
A polite Diogenes? Ridicule in Shaftesbury's politics of toleration -- Sociability, censorship and the limits of ridicule from Shaftesbury to Hutcheson -- Against 'dissolute mirth' : Hume's scepticism about ridicule -- Scoffing at scepticism : ridicule and common sense -- 'Too solemn for laughter'? Scottish abolitionists and the mock apology for slavery -- An education in contempt : ridicule in Wollstonecraft's politics.