Paul Katsafanas

Philosophy of Devotion

The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Katsafanas examines the role of devotion as an ethical stance in human life. Devotion typically involves treating certain values, goals, or relationships as inviolable, incontestable, and invulnerable to argument. Katsafanas argues that devotion can be reasonable, and suggests how it can avoid deforming into fanaticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867674
• ISBN-10: 0192867679
• Artikelnr.: 66120339

Autorenporträt

Paul Katsafanas is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and works on ethics, moral psychology, and nineteenth-century philosophy. He is the author of The Nietzschean Self (OUP, 2016), Agency and the Foundations of Ethics (OUP, 2013), and approximately thirty articles that have appeared in leading journals and edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1: The Longing for Devotion
2: The Nature of Sacred Values
3: Resisting Comparisons of Comparable Items
4: Devotion and Dialectical Invulnerability
5: Nihilism and the Abundance of Values
6: The Enlightenment Account of Fanaticism
7: Fanaticism as Individual Pathology
8: Group Fanaticism and Narratives of Ressentiment
9: Irony, Affirmation, and the Appeal of Inarticulacy
10: Conclusion
References