Overview
- Is an original assessment of Mandeville's work from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Brings together some of the leading figures in Mandevillean scholarship
- Fills the need for a comprehensive approach to Mandeville's work in European philosophical literature
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 40)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (18 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Edmundo Balsemão is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. He graduated from the University of Coimbra, in Philosophy (1986). He has a Master degree in Contemporary Philosophy, obtained in 1990 with a thesis on Emmanuel Levinas, and a Ph. D. with a dissertation on Hegel’s Political Philosophy (1999). He studied at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Hegel-Archiv) during a research year conducing to the Ph. D., as a DAAD fellow. He wrote Povo, Eticidade e Razão – Contributos para o estudo da Filosofia Política de Hegel in two volumes (Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2006), A Individuação da Sociedade Moderna (Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011) and edited Public Spaces, Power and Communication (Porto, 2007), Still Reading Hegel (Coimbra, 2009), Relations of the Self (Coimbra, 2010). He has also published many articles in specialized Journals, in Portugal and abroad and edited issues of academic Journals with international circulation.
Joaquim Braga is FCT-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of University of Coimbra, and member of the research group “Individuation of the Modern Society”, R&D LIF – Language, Interpretation, Philosophy. He is graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, he finished his PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis based on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. His current fields of research cover Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philo
sophy of Culture and Modern Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. His works include, among others, Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis – Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (together with Christian Möckel, Berlin, 2013).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes
Book Subtitle: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy
Editors: Edmundo Balsemão Pires, Joaquim Braga
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19381-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19380-9Published: 15 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36634-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19381-6Published: 05 October 2015
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 264
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History of Science