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Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman James A Steintrager
Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman
James A Steintrager
Investigates cruelty and its contribution to concepts of the human in the Enlightenment culture of the eighteenth century. This book shows the way that cruelty moved from being an inherently inhuman act that undermines the humanity of the perpetrator to an eminently human trait stemming from human agency and reason.
208 pages, 28 b&w photographs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780253216496 |
| Publishers | Indiana University Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 234 × 234 mm · 362 g |