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>> No.22524440
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What's the dichotomy? Mandeville assumes a state which can channel human desires towards economic ends (So Vice is beneficial found, When it’s by Justice lopt and bound), and arguably Hobbes also grounds his contractualism in these very same vices. They are more complimentary than contradictory in my interpretation.
Hirschman, i assume?

>> No.22524451

>>22524440

I just want to deepen my knowledge on proto-bourgeois and bourgeois literature.
I will read also Sade's Juliette.

Horkheimer/Adorno dialectic of enlightenment is my source, I really dig instrumental rationality

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>>22524451
If you want instrumental rationality then Hobbes is probably better as he spells it out explicitly. Weber is also a good source for discussions on instrumental rationality.
Mandeville is a proto-Smith, and if you just read the poem portion 'the grumbling hive' it will take you like, ten minutes (here's a link: https://jacklynch.net/Texts/hive.html)) It's not a great poem but well worth reading. The Fable of The Bees is a version with footnotes which expound on specific lines, but personally i think you can get most of it just from the poem.
I think you'd like Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' too if you haven't already read it already.
I was referring to pic related, which you might also get a kick out of, though i wouldn't consider it on the level of Adorno.