Blessings in Disguise, Or, The Morality of Evil
- ISBN-10
- 0674076478
- ISBN-13
- 9780674076471
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 235
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jean Starobinski
Description
It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".
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