Radical hope : ethics in the face of cultural devastation / Jonathan Lear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lear, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crow Indians--Social life and customs.

Crow Indians.

Ethics.

Social change.

Social sciences and ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p. ) 4 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

I. After this , nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry

II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope

III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle’s Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674040021

0674040023

OCLC:

848201941