Mandeville’s Fable

"""An astute and engaging work of intellectual history. . . . Mr. Douglass’s book insightfully probes Mandeville’s account of prideful sociability, testing it against the criticism of, among others, David Hume.""---Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal ""Mandeville’s Fable is an enviably learned volume. Lucidly written and judicious in tone, Douglass’ treatment of Mandeville as a social philosopher par excellence sets a high bar for scholars who hope to walk the interpretive tightrope between intellectual history and philosophy as effortlessly as he does.""---Glory M. Liu, Centre for the Study of Governance & Society ""[Mandeville’s Fable] is a work of serious scholarship. . . . Douglass provides a clear and compelling account of Mandeville’s moral and social thought, one that establishes its subject as a serious thinker whose provocative and ‘unsettling’ . . . ideas retain today their power to provoke and unsettle.""---Brandon Turner, Perspectives on Politics ""[An] excellent book."" * Choice * ""[E]ngaging and compelling . . . a must-read for anyone interested in the history of philosophy and political philosophy in the broadest sense, as well as moral and social psychology—and indeed for anyone who is, or who wishes to quickly become, interested in Mandeville.""---Elad Carmel, Philosophy in Review ""[An] absorbing and tightly argued book.""---Ross Carroll, Intellectual History Review"