Living with Indifference

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Living with Indifference is about the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. In this provocative work that is anything but indifferent, Charles E. Scott explores the ways people have spoken and thought about indifference. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it. Scott's preoccupation with indifference issues a demand for focused attention in connection with personal values, ethics, and beliefs. This elegantly argued book speaks to the positive value of diversity and a world that is open to human passion.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-05-18
Mått156 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Continental Thought
Antal sidor184
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253219008

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ContentsAcknowledgments1. Speaking of Indifference2. Helen, Truth, and the Wisdom of Nemesis3. Pythagoras, Indifference, and the Beautiful Soul4. The Indifference of Finitude: Arendt and Heidegger5. Another Look at "Soul": Mimetic Geist6. Indifferent Freedom7. In the Name of Goodness8. Indifferent Love9. Trauma's Presentation10. The Appearance of Public Memory11. Wal-Mart and the Heavens: The Factor of IndifferenceIndex

"Scott (Vanderbilt) continues the subtle work begun in his previous books, particularly The Lives of Things, (CH, Feb'03, 40—3336). Here he focuses on a range of experiences with 'indifferent' life events . . . Scott also addresses various ways traumas may be caused and experienced indifferently; gives a 'middle-voice' account of people finding themselves enacting and indifferently caring for 'public memory' and significance; and discusses the Wal-Mart ethos, contrasted with the beauty of indifferent cosmic events. His fine 'phenomenological' eye for important human 'events' makes this book well worth reading. . . . Recommended."—Choice"No one should be able to finish this book without having been moved to reconsider issues that are both sophisticated and existential."—John Lysaker, University of Oregon"A refreshing reminder of what philosophical practice is capable of setting forth."—Jason WinfreeCalifornia State University