Theory of Regret

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvBrian Price

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In A Theory of Regret Brian Price contends that regret is better understood as an important political emotion than as a form of weakness. Price shows how regret allows us to see that our convictions are more often the products of our perceptual habits than the authentic signs of moral courage that we more regularly take them to be. Regret teaches us to give up our expectations of what we think should or might occur in the future, and also the idea that what we think we should do will always be the right thing to do. Understood instead as a mode of thoughtfulness, regret helps us to clarify our will in relation to the decisions we make within institutional forms of existence. Considering regret in relation to emancipatory theories of thinking, Price shows how the unconditionally transformative nature of this emotion helps us become more sensitive to contingency and allows us, in turn, to recognize the steps we can take toward changing the institutions that shape our lives.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-25
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822369516

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Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 11. What is Regret? 31The Habit of Virtue 32Nonvoluntary and Involuntary Relations 36Stupidity and Akrasia 42When to Speak? 352. Impossible Advice 60The Postman Always Rings Twice 61Possible Advice 71The Gift of Advice 82Economy, Economics 90Sameness and Trust 933. The Problem of Withdrawal 103The Trouble with Agonism 106Keeping Up Appearances 110Appearance and Withdrawal 117Hypocristy and Regret 127Afterthoughts 133Notes 141Bibliography 155Index 161

"I marvel at the argument and the intricate conceptual architecture of the book. This is an incisive, exciting, and very welcome meditation on the power of regret to make us more thoughtful human beings." - Katherine Goktepe (Contemporary Political Theory) "[A Theory of Regret] is navigating one of the most fraught questions of our current scholarly moment, in which theory is being surpassed, elegized, ignored, and derided, and yet so very many of us still crave its appearance, its surprises, and its speculations. Thus, among the many other things it is, A Theory of Regret is also a powerful model for how to write a theory of anything whatsoever." - Eugenie Brinkema (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies)