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The Fable of the Bees

Autor Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 1989

This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140445411
ISBN-10: 0140445412
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)

Descriere

A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".