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The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World

Autor Cheryl Mendelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2012
The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy. Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots, and how a humane democracy, with its freedoms, depends on the moral sense of its citizens.Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions, free of ideology, of what morality really is, tracing it to its psychological roots, and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism, the culture of "cool," irrationalist movements in politics and religion, and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life. Along the way, she gives a clear, persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesn't force us to be dogmatic and judgmental. Mendelson's book is a bracing polemic, but it is also inspiring and, with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality, an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408833674
ISBN-10: 1408833670
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: N/A
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

BROAD AUDIENCE: A book for the intelligent general reader (an antidote to William Bennett's long-ago bestseller THE BOOK OF VIRTUES), with special appeal also to those with a political bent, mainstream religious groups, academics.

Notă biografică

Cheryl Mendelson is the author of the bestselling Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, as well as three novels. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has practiced law in New York City and teaches philosophy at Barnard College. Her next book, on the subject of marriage, is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2013. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Recenzii

The very definitions of morality and goodness are nastily contested political flash points, and Mendelson, in a forceful but compassionate argument, shows how this has affected our culture.
Powerful, meaningful, and thorough... She is not neutral in her gritty analysis...Her style, clean and sharp and heavily footnoted, does not suffer minds 'immune to reason.'
An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next
The bible of good housekeeping
Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food
I couldn't put it down.

Descriere

A fresh and provocative perspective on the moral life and the hatred of moral values that now runs deep--and dangerously--through American culture and character.