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In This Sequel To Civility And Society In Western Europe, 1300-1600, Marvin Becker Continues His Study Of The Interior Life Of Western Culture. Here Becker Treats The Rise Of Civil Society In England And Scotland As It Worked To Reorganize The Spaces And Practices That Constituted Human Sociability. For Becker, The Emergence Of Civil Society Marks The Tilt From Familiarity Toward Impersonality, From Public Toward Private, From Social Solidarity Toward Self-interest. He Shows How These Cultural Changes From An Archaic To A Commercial Social Model Called For New Approaches To Human Nature, Ethics, And Politics, Which Becker Summarizes As A Scaling Down Of Expectations. Through An Analysis Of The Writings Of Descartes, Pascal, Hobbes, Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke, And Others, And Culminating In The Leading Figures Of The Eighteenth Century Scottish Enlightenment, Becker Traces The Decline Of The Medieval Conception Of Society, Characterized By The Correct Performance Of Duties And Obligations And Which Prized Above All Else Honor, Heroism, And Charitable Benevolence. In Its Stead Emerged A New View Of Society Based On Self Interest And Privacy And In Which Sociability Was Reduced To The

Author

Becker, Marvin B.

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253311290

Subjects

History, Humanities