False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory

Losing Public Purpose

AvPatrick Murray,Jeanne Schuler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt:673 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031350276

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Patrick Murray is John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities, Creighton University, USA.Jeanne Schuler is Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, USA.

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Introduction: How Factoring Philosophy Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines.- Chapter One: Is Life Absurd?.- Chapter Two: Being Mortal.- Chapter Three: Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism.- Chapter Four: Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness.- Chapter Five: Moral Luck, Responsibility, and this Worldly Life.- Chapter Six: The Pure Self in Political Life: Reconsidering the Primacy of the Right over the Good.- Chapter Seven: Values as Purely Subjective: Against the Idea of “A New Creation”.- Chapter Eight: Setting Aside the Purely Subjective: Reclaiming the Discourse of Truth and Error.- Beyond “the Illusion of the Economic”: Renewing the Concept of Capital: A Foreword to Chapters Nine, Ten, and Eleven.- Chapter Nine: Why Wealth is a Poor Concept.- Chapter Ten: Capital, the Truth about Utility.- Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Instrumental Reason and Action.- Conclusion: Just Enough Phenomenology.- Appendix A: Dogmas of Factoring Philosophy.- Appendix B: Symptoms of Factoring Philosophy.