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Catherine Marshall, « David Wootton, Power, Pleasure and Profit. Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison », Revue d’études benthamiennes, ID : 10.4000/etudes-benthamiennes.1182
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David Wootton’s latest book is an attempt to show how “Power, Pleasure and Profit” – each related in turn to Machiavelli, Hobbes and Smith’s works – have shaped our modern world because they are “three goods which can be pursued without limits” (p. 241). Based on a series of six Carlyle Lectures entitled “Power and Pleasure, 1513-1776”, given at the University of Oxford in 2014, the book attempts a major reinterpretation of the ideas of the thinkers of the period from 1500 to 1800. David Woot...