{"product_id":"adam-smiths-moral-sentiments-in-rosa-slegers-9783030075255","title":"Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp","description":"\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, theambitious 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosa Slegers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030075257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030075255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d","brand":"Rosa Slegers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44450345419007,"sku":"9783030075255","price":84.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_512e2b31-5ebd-4009-bc9e-cf4670a44327.jpg?v=1698504271","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adam-smiths-moral-sentiments-in-rosa-slegers-9783030075255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}