Format:
Online-Ressource (304 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107036543
Series Statement:
Modern European Philosophy
Content:
A unique exploration of Adorno's ethics, defending his challenging views about how to live in an evil world
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The whole is untrue; I Auschwitz, radical evil, and failed culture; II The whole is untrue 1 (modern society); III The whole is untrue 2 (modern thought forms); IV Conclusion; 2 No right living; I 'Refuge for the homeless': a summary; II The antinomical structure of our lives; III False consciousness and guilt context; IV 'Life does not live'; V Living less wrongly; VI No golden past and insufficient material progress; VII Exceptions to the rule?; 3 Social determination and negative freedom; I Beholden to (social) externality
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II Freedom is historicalIII The (political) quest for freedom; IV The negative freedom to resist unfreedom; V A crisis in moral practice; VI To punish or not to punish: an objective antagonism; 4 Adorno's critique of moral philosophy; I Adorno's critique of Kant's moral philosophy; I.1 Moral worth, repression, and happiness; I.2 Pure egos, consequences, and The Wild Duck; I.3 Adorno's Empty Formalism Objection; I.4 Adorno's critique of the fact of reason; II Adorno's critique of non-Kantian moral philosophy; II.1 Hostage to existing reality: critique of the ethics of responsibility
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II.2 Against (Nietzsche's) new valuesII.3 Virtue has grown old; II.4 Always too little compassion; 5 A new categorical imperative; I To arrange our thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself; II Historically indexed; III Imposed on humankind in its state of unfreedom; IV Not maxim-centred; V The materialistic motive; VI The absolute moral minimum; VII Addressed at humankind; VIII The outrage of (attempts at) discursive grounding; IX Intermediate summary; X Radical evil and moralising; 6 An ethics of resistance; I Resistance and not living wrongly; II Fostering resistance
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III Conclusion7 Justification, vindication, and explanation; I Against discursive grounding; II What kind of account of normativity (if any) does Adorno need?; 8 Negativism defended; I The normative force of the bad; II A negative characterisation of the good underdetermines it; III No need to be constructive; IV A negativistic philosophy can have practical import; V We can recognise badness without knowledge of the good; VI Conclusion; 9 Adorno's negative Aristotelianism; I The Aristotelian conception of normativity; II Adorno's negative Aristotelianism
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Appendix The jolt - Adorno on spontaneous willingI The jolt in freedom: impulses and spontaneity; II Towards a different view of nature, the self, and agency; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107036543
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Print version Adorno's Practical Philosophy Living Less Wrongly
Language:
English
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