Large, Duncan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-7334
(2009)
On the genealogy of moral pleasure.
German Life and Letters, 62 (3).
pp. 255-269.
ISSN 0016-8777
Abstract
This article explores the problematic relation between pleasure and morality in German thought, from the Enlightenment aesthetics of the eighteenth century through to early twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Specifically, by focusing on the status and function of pleasure in the moral analyses of Kant, the post-Kantians Schiller and Schopenhauer, then Nietzsche and finally Freud, it argues for a shift in emphasis, over this period, from the moral evaluation of pleasure to a recognition of the pleasurable value of morality. Along the way, it traces the German reception of the Discourse on the Nature of Pleasure and Pain (1773-81) by the Milanese philosopher and economist Pietro Verri.
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Date Deposited: | 01 May 2015 15:12 |
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 00:53 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53340 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01462.x |
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