Ideas to Live For - Toward a Global Ethics (Paperback)

Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such threats can be at least mitigated, even if not removed, by understanding as opposed to force and what resources a more pragmatic cosmopolitanism might provide for doing so. How, in other words, might our sense of the human be reconstructed, not around suspicion or antipathy toward others, but around an epistemological and moral need of them? In this narrativized collection of his essays, Gunn introduces each one with a set of comments designed to explain his goal when first writing them and what they mean to him now. The variety of issues he addresses ranges from the theory of culture and cultural criticism (particularly in America), the philosophy of inter- and cross-disciplinary studies, and the psychology and politics of pragmatism to the ethics of human solidarity, the place of culture in the misshaping of international affairs, and the quest of both religion and culture for a new basis for the normative.

General

Imprint:	University of Virginia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Religion and Culture
Release date:	September 2015
Authors:	Giles Gunn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-8139-3731-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-8139-3731-0
Barcode:	9780813937311

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