Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humourous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their vices for virtues and immediately fall into economic and societal collapse. Outrage among the reading public followed; phil...