Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Civility and Literature and Their Discontents 15
6. 2. Civil Beginnings 56
7. 3. Philosophy Polite and Politic: Shaftesbury’s “Inmate Controller” 82
8. 4. The Displacement of Civility: Violence in a Widening World 119
9. 5. Civility after 1989: Romancing Small Groups 156
10. 6. The Reach of Literature 183
11. Notes 235
12. Index 273