Bültmann & Gerriets
Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves
Early Modern French Thought II
von Michael Moriarty
Verlag: Sydney University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-19-929103-8
Erschienen am 27.07.2006
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 216 mm [H] x 140 mm [B] x 29 mm [T]
Gewicht: 717 Gramm
Umfang: 450 Seiten

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From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analyzing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfillment by living our lives according to reason, the highest and noblest element of our nature)
survives, even, to some extent, in Descartes. But it is put into question especially by the revival of St. Augustine's thought, which focuses on the contradictions and disorders of human desires and aspirations. Analyses of behavior display a powerful suspicion of appearances. Human beings are
increasingly seen as motivated by self-love: they are driven by the desire for their own advantage, and take a narcissistic delight in their own image. Moral and religious writers re-emphasize the traditional imperative of self-knowledge, but in such a way as to suggest the difficulties of knowing
oneself. Operating with the Cartesian distinction between mind and body, they emphasize the imperceptible influence of bodily processes on our thought and attitudes. They analyze human beings' ignorance (due to self-love) of their own motives and qualities, and the illusions under which they live
their lives. Their critique of human behavior is no less searching than that of writers who have broken with traditional religious morality, such as Hobbes and Spinoza. A wide range of authors is studied, some well-known, others much less so: the abstract and general analyses of philosophers and
theologians (Descartes, Jansenius, Malebranche) are juxtaposed with the less systematic and more concrete investigations of writers like Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld, not to mention the theatre of Corneille, Moliere, and Racine.



Michael Moriarty is Centenary Professor of French Literature and Thought at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of Early Modern French Thought: the Age of Suspicion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), Roland Barthes (Cambridge: Polity, 1991), Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. He was previously a Lecturer in the French Department of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.



  • Part One: Human Nature

  • 1: Approaches

  • 2: Original Sin

  • Part Two: Self-Love and Concupiscence

  • 1: Early Modern Religious Perspectives

  • 2: La Rochefoucauld on Interest and Self-Love

  • 3: Malebranche's Synthesis

  • Part Three: Problems of Self-Knowledge

  • 1: Forms of Self-Knowledge

  • 2: Literary Explorations

  • 3: Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance in Context

  • 4: La Rochefoucauld and Self-Knowledge

  • 5: Religious Moralists