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Outside ethics

Raymond Geuss

(Princeton paperbacks)

Princeton University Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way of thinking about what is important in human life--a way of thinking that, in his view, is characteristic of contemporary Western societies and isolates three broad categories of things as important: subjective individual preferences, knowledge, and restrictions on actions that affect other people (restrictions often construed as ahistorical laws). He sets these categories in a wider context and explores various human phenomena--including poetry, art, religion, and certain kinds of history and social criticism--that do not fit easily into these categories. As its title suggests, this book seeks a place outside conventional ethics. Following a brief introduction, Geuss sets out his main concerns with a focus on ethics and politics. He then expands these themes by discussing freedom, virtue, the good life, and happiness. Next he examines Theodor Adorno's views on the relation between suffering and knowledge, the nature of religion, and the role of history in giving us critical distances from existing identities. From here he moves to aesthetic concerns. The volume closes by looking at what it is for a human life to have "gaps"--to be incomplete, radically unsatisfactory, or a failure.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Liberalism and Its Discontents 11 Chapter 2: Neither History nor Praxis 29 Chapter 3: Outside Ethics 40 Chapter 4: Freedom as an Ideal 67 Chapter 5: Virtue and the Good Life 78 Chapter 6: Happiness and Politics 97 Chapter 7: Suffering and Knowledge in Adorno 111 Chapter 8: On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions 131 Chapter 9: Genealogy as Critique 153 Chapter 10: Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics 161 Chapter 11: Poetry and Knowledge 184 Chapter 12: Plato, Romanticism, and Thereafter 206 Chapter 13: Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams 219 Chapter 14: Adorno's Gaps 234 Index 249

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA75052236
  • ISBN
    • 9780691123424
  • LCCN
    2005006802
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Princeton, N.J.
  • ページ数/冊数
    viii, 257 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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