False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory Losing Public Purpose /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Murray, Patrick (Author), Schuler, Jeanne (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XXIX, 406 p. 1 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Political Philosophy and Public Purpose,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35028-3
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.