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David Wootton (Anniversary Professor, University of York) présentera sa communication “Power, pleasure and profit: insatiable appetites from Hobbes to Smith" autour de son livre Power, Pleasure and Profit (Harvard UP, 2018) jeudi 9 mai 2019 de 17h30 à 19h. Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, Paris 6e , salle D421"My argument is that  moral, social, and economic life was transformed in line with Hobbes's  claim that pleasure and happiness are purely subjective, and that there  is no summum bonum or  highest good. I trace the impact of this view through the moral,  political and economic thinking of the Enlightenment, particularly the  British Enlightenment, from Locke to Bentham. In my talk I will touch  briefly on some of the key themes of my book (with particular reference  to Hume), and I will look in particular at a topic where much of the  pioneering intellectual work was French, but which lie at the heart of  Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776):  the question of famine. I will argue that Smith's inability to think  about famine is symptomatic of the intellectual failures of the  post-Hobbesian Enlightenment. These intellectual failures continue to be  our own."David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at  the University of York. He works on European cultural and intellectual  history from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. He has published  widely on the history of science and medicine (Bad Medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, 2006, Galileo: Watcher of the Skies, 2010 and The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, 2016). His latest book, Power, Pleasure and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison was recently published by Harvard University Press (2018). Discutante&#160;: Catherine Marshall (Cergy-Pontoise)Contact&#160;: Emmanuelle de Champs:&#160;emmanuelle.de-champ@u-cergy.fr&#160;&#160;