{"product_id":"9783319987309","title":"Issues in Business Ethics: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIssues in Business Ethics: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSlegers, Rosa\u003c\/h2\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\u003e\u003cdiv\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-09-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319987309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-98731-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 187\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44481596358796,"sku":"9783319987309","price":76.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319987309.jpg?v=1775708987","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319987309","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}