Moral laboratories family peril and the struggle for a good life
Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgmentsPrologue -- Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Or...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgmentsPrologue -- Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary -- 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother -- 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves -- Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility -- 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby -- 8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person -- 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index. "Moral Laboratories is at once engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray in the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, foregrounding the uncertainty of their struggles for a "good life." Challenging depictions of moral transformation as only possible in moments of breakdown or exceptional limit experience, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in ordinary existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a potential "moral laboratory" for reshaping moral life. Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching case stories to elaborate a first person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality. In so doing, she deals with a complex history of philosophical and anthropological thinking on ethics in an accessible and immediately relevant way"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 261 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0520281195 0-520-28119-5 0520281209 0-520-28120-9 9780520281196 978-0-520-28119-6 9780520281202 978-0-520-28120-2 9780520959538 |