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Laughter [ Communication ]
… observed, ‘you may laugh in as many ways as you talk’. In its various guises, laughing could communicate anything from warmth to outright hostility; a well-placed chuckle could be the epitome of politeness, while an uncontrolled guffaw – … and Mary Wollstonecraft. 2 This discussion was shot through with ambivalence. Laughing could communicate anything from warmth to outright hostility; a well-placed chuckle could be the epitome of politeness, while an uncontrolled guffaw – … Journal (vol. 57, n° 4, 2014), p. 921-945. 14 . John Hope, ‘His defence of laughter, against Lord Chesterfield’s unwarrantable attack’, Westminster Magazine (Jan. 1775), p.107. Partager Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… the telos of human life. 'True Learning', therefore, fundamentally involved the study of how 'to bee Sociable & Good towards all men' ( Correspondence, 204). 3 . Patrick Müller, ‘Reshaping the Leviathan: A Commonwealth Built around Sociable … of the House of Lords until his ultimate retirement from active politics (due to ill health) in 1702. From that point onward, the pen became his political weapon. H e conceptualized a cu ltural politics that sought to transform British … Human Minds' ( Ainsworth Correspondence 404). Likewise, in Locke’s effort to motivate moral behavior by appealing to rewards and punishments meted out by God, Shaftesbury saw not virtue but craven, fearful self-interest: 'nothing which …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… and exemplified an ideal of polite sociability that became extremely influential in the eighteenth century and afterwards. His prose style was often emulated by later periodical essayists and his character was presented as exemplary of … Womersley (ed.), ’Cultures of Whiggism’: New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2005). 3 . Lawrence Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics …
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