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The Good Enough Life

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ISBN/EAN: 9781509559664
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 300 S., 0.56 MB
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2023
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Beschreibung

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.

Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophers in the Western tradition, from Socrates and the Stoics through Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger to Adorno, Rawls, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum.

As an ethnography, this book reveals just how much we can learn from a respectful acknowledgement of what ordinary modest people have achieved. By creating community as a deliberate and social project that provides the foundation for a more fulfilling life, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this town have found a way to live the good enough life. The book also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an enquiry into what we might accomplish in our lives.

Autorenportrait

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cuan and Kant1: An Exceptionally Free Society2: Philosophers of Freedom3: The First Satiable Society4: Philosophers and Consumerism5: Inequality, Drugs and Depression6: Justice as Fairness7: The Body and Sports8: The Origins of Philosophy in Sport9: Creating Community10: Placing Heidegger11: Engaging the World12: The Stoics and Epicurus13: Hegel, Cuan, Anthropology and PhilosophyEndnotesBibliography

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