| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Liberalism and its discontents -- Neither history nor praxis -- Outside ethics -- Freedom as an ideal -- Virtue and the good life -- Happiness and politics -- Suffering and knowledge in Adorno -- On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions -- Genealogy as critique -- Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics -- Poetry and knowledge -- Plato, romanticism, and thereafter -- Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams -- Adorno's gaps. |
| Summary |
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 (r. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Liberalism.
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Liberalism. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geuss, Raymond. Outside ethics. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691123411 069112342X (DLC) 2005006802 (OCoLC)58545992 |
| ISBN |
9781400826933 (electronic book) |
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1400826934 (electronic book) |
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0691123411 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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069112342X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691123417 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691123424 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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