The making of the good person : self-help, ethics and philosophy
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The making of the good person : self-help, ethics and philosophy
（Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress and profundity.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Reading the Self-help Culture 2. What is Self-help? 3. Plural Histories of Self-help 4. Self-help and Governmentality 5. We Have Always Been Governed Part 2: Philosophy as a Self-transformative Practice 6. Transformative Hopes in Philosophy 7. Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice 8. Foucault's Two Faces? 9. Murdoch's Platonic Ascent 10. Wittgenstein's Therapy 11. Cavell's Ethics of Becoming 12. Ways Forward
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