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Rethinking Politeness With Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Rethinking Politeness With Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Rethinking Politeness With Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Rethinking Politeness With Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politeness and foreshadowed aspects of his laterwork, it remains remarkably little-known. Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson offers the first English translation of Discours sur la Politesse, and brings together leading linguistic anthropologists to critically engage with and expand on Bergson's ideas. At the core of Bergson's essay is a tripartite classification of politeness acts into politesse des manieres ("politeness of manners"), politesse de l'esprit ("politeness of mind/spirit"), and politesse du coeur ("politeness of the heart"). Presented along a hierarchy of intersubjective attunementand ethical aspirations, Bergson's three types call for the progressive abandonment of habits when they get in the way of our ability to help others. They can also be read as an invitation to consider politeness as a dimension of human sociability that is relevant to social theory. Collectively, theessays in this volume untangle the ideological, socio-historical, and material conditions that shape notions of the ideal social agent, and propose a rethinking of politeness that serves as a bridge to larger issues of civility, citizenship, and democracy. | Rethinking Politeness With Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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