Geuss Outside Ethics

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2693-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Geuss, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond Geuss is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton), The Idea of Critical Theory, and History and Illusion in Politics.