The view from here on affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret

Looking backward (with feeling) -- For sorrow there is no remedy -- Regret and agency -- Preferences about the past -- Regret and affirmation -- Affirming the unacceptable -- Young girl's child -- Affirmation and justification -- Mixed feelings -- Meaning, disability, and politics -- Luck, just...

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1. Verfasser: Wallace, R. Jay (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Looking backward (with feeling) -- For sorrow there is no remedy -- Regret and agency -- Preferences about the past -- Regret and affirmation -- Affirming the unacceptable -- Young girl's child -- Affirmation and justification -- Mixed feelings -- Meaning, disability, and politics -- Luck, justification, and moral complaint -- Williams Gauguin -- Affirming one's life -- Affirmation, justification, and morality -- Deep and shallow ambivalence -- Bourgeois predicament -- Meaning and its conditions -- Obstacles to affirmation -- Bourgeois predicament -- Redemption, withdrawal, denial -- Somewhat pessimistic conclusion.
Beschreibung:Literaturangaben
Beschreibung:XI, 268 S.
22 cm
ISBN:9780199941353
978-0-19-994135-3