Radical hope: ethics in the face of cultural devastation

Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2006)
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After this, nothing happened -- Ethics at the horizon -- Critique of abysmal reasoning.

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BJ52.L43 2006

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9780674023291   0674027469   0674023293   9780674040021

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10.4159/9780674040021

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1. I. After this, nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry.  (pages 1-55)
2. II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope.  (pages 55-102)
3. III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle’s Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull.  (pages 103-157)
Acknowledgments.  (pages 179-180)
Index.  (pages 181-187)

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