Raymond Geuss

A World Without Why

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection--several of which are published here for the first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it has shown itself to be unfounded and misguided. Discussions of Greco-Roman antiquity and of the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adorno play a central role in many of these essays. Geuss also ranges over such topics as the concepts of intelligibility, authority, democracy, and criticism; the role of lying in politics; architecture; the place of theology in ethics; tragedy and comedy; and the struggle between realism and our search for meaning. Characterized by Geuss's wide-ranging interests in literature, philosophy, and history, and by his political commitment and trenchant style, A World without Why raises fundamental questions about the viability not just of specific ethical concepts and theses, but of our most basic assumptions about what ethics could and must be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 123mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780691169200
• ISBN-10: 0691169209
• Artikelnr.: 43707939

Autorenporträt

Raymond Geuss is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His books include Politics and the Imagination and Philosophy and Real Politics (both Princeton).

Rezensionen

Geuss is a unique voice in contemporary philosophy, and this book is ideal for anyone interested in intellectual history.--David Gordon, Library Journal