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The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, unsettle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. 'Uncivil Mirth' examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and the dismantling of patriarchal power.
Ridicule. --- Enlightenment. --- Enlightenment --- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- History. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- England --- History --- Burke. --- Edmund Burke. --- English Enlightenment. --- Francis Hutcheson. --- Henry Sacheverell. --- Hobbes. --- Humean skepticism. --- Jeremy Waldron. --- Lawrence Klein. --- Leviathan. --- Perils of False Brethren. --- Protestantism. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Scottish abolitionists. --- Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness. --- The Harm in Hate Speech. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- comedy. --- cultural history. --- dissolute mirth. --- feminism. --- free speech. --- freedom of speech. --- humor. --- mockery. --- offense. --- politeness. --- politics of toleration. --- public sphere. --- public square. --- religious fanaticism. --- slavery. --- Intellectual life --- Ashley, --- Cooper, Anthony Ashley, --- Shaftesbury, Antony Ashley Cooper, --- Shaftesbury, --- Ṣāpṭspari Pirapu, --- Freedom of speech --- Ridicule --- Political aspects --- Fanaticism --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Law and legislation --- Pragmatics --- History of civilization --- Shaftesbury, of, Anthony A.C.
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"Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent in revolutionary or democratic ideologies, and condemned as defender of social hierarchy and outmoded political institutions. Ross Carroll tempers these judgments by situating Burke's arguments in relation to the political controversies of his day. Burke's writings must be understood as rhetorically brilliant exercises in political persuasion aimed less at defending abstract truths than at warning his contemporaries about the corrosive forces - ideological, social, and political - that threatened their society. Drawing on Burke's enormous corpus, Carroll presents a nuanced portrait of Burke as, above all, a diagnostician of political misrule, whether domestic, foreign, or imperial. Burke's lasting value, Carroll argues, derives less from the content of his specific positions than from the difficult questions he forces us to ask of ourselves. This engaging and illuminating account of Burke's work is a vital reference for students and scholars of history, philosophy, and political thought"--
Burke, Edmond --- Burke, Edmund --- Political science --- Burke, Edmund, - 1729-1797
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