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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

By David Wootton

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About the book

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that r...Show more

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9780674976672

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Harvard University Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

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Hardcover

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