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Title: | The fables of pity: Rousseau, Mandeville and the animal-fable |
Authors: | Gaston, S |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Citation: | Derrida Today, 5(1), 21-38, 2012 |
Abstract: | Prompted by Derrida’s work on the animal-fable in eighteenth-century debates about political power, this article examines the role played by the fiction of the animal in thinking of pity as either a natural virtue (in Rousseau’s Second Discourse) or as a natural passion (in Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees). The war of fables between Rousseau and Mandeville – and their hostile reception by Samuel Johnson and Adam Smith – reinforce that the animal-fable illustrates not so much the proper of man as the possibilities and limitations of a moral philosophy that is unable to address the political realities of the state. |
Description: | Copyright @ 2012 Edinburgh University Press |
URI: | http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2012.0026 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7795 |
ISSN: | 1754-8500 |
Appears in Collections: | English and Creative Writing Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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