Nora Hämäläinen

The Making of the Good Person (eBook, PDF)

Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress and profundity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000863147
• Artikelnr.: 67381782

Autorenporträt

Nora Hämäläinen is Docent and University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of Descriptive Ethics: What Does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality? (2016) and Literature and Moral Theory (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Reading the Self
help Culture 2. What is Self
help? 3. Plural Histories of Self
help 4. Self
help and Governmentality 5. We Have Always Been Governed Part 2: Philosophy as a Self
transformative Practice 6. Transformative Hopes in Philosophy 7. Pierre Hadot
Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice 8. Foucault's Two Faces? 9. Murdoch's Platonic Ascent 10. Wittgenstein's Therapy 11. Cavell's Ethics of Becoming 12. Ways Forward