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Meaning and Appreciation - Time and Modern Political Life (Hardcover)
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Meaning and Appreciation - Time and Modern Political Life (Hardcover)
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The great crisis of twentieth-century philosophy has been the loss
of meaning as a criterion for conduct. With the collapse of the
historical sociologies of the nineteenth century and their
replacement by relativistic doctrines, contemporary thought has
retreated to the fleeting present moment as the ground for
describing action. In Meaning and Appreciation, Michael Weinstein
traces the history of the failure of historical meaning, showing
how the disappearance of collective purpose has altered our sense
of time and made us aware that we are the creators of our time
perspectives. Drawing upon the vitalistic tradition of Bergson,
Weinstein returns to the intuition of the dur6e and argues that
beneath practical life, we are rooted in successive lived presents.
Weinstein identifies the lived present with appreciation, arguing
that the life of expression, not nihilism, lies beyond the wreckage
of historical teleology, The climax of Weinstein's work is an
original vision of human existence, in which our essence is to
express one another to ourselves. Vindicating our intrinsic
sociality against the abstract and mechanistic claims of both
individualism and collectivism, the author argues that our destiny
is not to project meanings into a symbolic future, but to attend to
and care for one another in the present. Weinstein's sensitive
analysis offers new insights into such contemporary movements as
existentialism, the sociology of knowledge, and cultural
philosophy, evaluating all of them in terms of the fundamental
tension in our society.
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