LEADER 03825nam 22006974a 450 001 9910455227703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15765-5 010 $a9786612157653 010 $a1-4008-2693-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826933 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788498 035 $a(EBL)457803 035 $a(OCoLC)438240383 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000217018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185765 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10203078 035 $a(PQKB)10151929 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457803 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36271 035 $a(DE-B1597)446287 035 $a(OCoLC)979578583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826933 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457803 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312500 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215765 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788498 100 $a20050309d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOutside ethics$b[electronic resource] /$fRaymond Geuss 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12341-1 311 $a0-691-12342-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLiberalism and its discontents -- Neither history nor praxis -- Outside ethics -- Freedom as an ideal -- Virtue and the good life -- Happiness and politics -- Suffering and knowledge in Adorno -- On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions -- Genealogy as critique -- Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics -- Poetry and knowledge -- Plato, romanticism, and thereafter -- Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams -- Adorno's gaps. 330 $aOutside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way of thinking about what is important in human life--a way of thinking that, in his view, is characteristic of contemporary Western societies and isolates three broad categories of things as important: subjective individual preferences, knowledge, and restrictions on actions that affect other people (restrictions often construed as ahistorical laws). He sets these categories in a wider context and explores various human phenomena--including poetry, art, religion, and certain kinds of history and social criticism--that do not fit easily into these categories. As its title suggests, this book seeks a place outside conventional ethics. Following a brief introduction, Geuss sets out his main concerns with a focus on ethics and politics. He then expands these themes by discussing freedom, virtue, the good life, and happiness. Next he examines Theodor Adorno's views on the relation between suffering and knowledge, the nature of religion, and the role of history in giving us critical distances from existing identities. From here he moves to aesthetic concerns. The volume closes by looking at what it is for a human life to have "gaps"--to be incomplete, radically unsatisfactory, or a failure. 606 $aEthics 606 $aLiberalism 606 $aPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aLiberalism. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 676 $a170 686 $a08.38$2bcl 700 $aGeuss$b Raymond$0498181 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455227703321 996 $aOutside ethics$92473130 997 $aUNINA