{"product_id":"adam-smiths-moral-sentiments-in-vanity-fair-lessons-in-business-ethics-from-becky-sharp-hardcover","title":"Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosa Slegers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. \"The great secret of education,\" Smith writes, \"is to direct vanity to proper objects: \" this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactly \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book brings Smith's \u003ci\u003eTheory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e into conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray's \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003eto offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise) to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary case study presented here\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis Becky Sharp, the ambitious and cunning protagonist of Thackeray's novel. Becky is joined by a number of other 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century literary heroines - drawn from the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot - whose feminine (and feminist) perspectives complement Smith's astute observations and complicate his account of vanity\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e The fictional characters featured in this volume enrich and deepen our understanding of Smith's work and disclose parts of our own experience in a fresh way, revealing the dark and at times ridiculous aspects of life in Vanity Fair, today as in the past.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. \"The great secret of education,\" Smith writes, \"is to direct vanity to proper objects: \" this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactly \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse?\u003c\/p\u003eThis book brings Smith's \u003ci\u003eTheory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e into conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray's \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003eto offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise) to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary case study presented here\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis Becky Sharp, the ambitious and cunning protagonist of Thackeray's novel. Becky is joined by a number of other 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century literary heroines - drawn from the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot - whose feminine (and feminist) perspectives complement Smith's astute observations and complicate his account of vanity\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e The fictional characters featured in this volume enrich and deepen our understanding of Smith's work and disclose parts of our own experience in a fresh way, revealing the dark and at times ridiculous aspects of life in Vanity Fair, today as in the past.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosa Slegers\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Babson College. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Fordham University, an MBA from Babson College, and an MA in Literary Theory from the University of Leuven, Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003eSlegers' scholarship and teaching integrate philosophy, literature, and management thinking to pursue questions at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eCourageous Vulnerability\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2011), draws on the philosophies of William James, Henri Bergson, and Gabriel Marcel to frame a cluster of moral and aesthetic attitudes in Marcel Proust's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eAdam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e(Springer, forthcoming), brings Smith's \u003ci\u003eTheory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e into conversation with 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century English novels to explore the role of vanity in commercial society. Slegers' current research focuses on the role of the emotions (in particular shame) in moral decision-making and the uncanny existential implications of technological developments.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 187\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51794510512416,"sku":"9783319987309","price":137.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1978deb76570d263773cb0040fed8e3f.webp?v=1780729725","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/adam-smiths-moral-sentiments-in-vanity-fair-lessons-in-business-ethics-from-becky-sharp-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}