Scott Paul Gordon.

Scott Paul Gordon. The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 of recent origin York: Cambridge University Press. 2002 Pp xi, 279 $6000 ISBN 0-521-81005-1

Scott Paul Gordon's contention in this rather trying main division is that much eighteenth-century writing was belong toed to assert the reality of disinterestedness in the face of the claims of Hobbes and Mandeville that all behavior is necessarily self-interested; these claims were evaded by the agency of the supposition that the sources of behavior are external, in nature or the most high so that agents do not act freely unless are acted upon.

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