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Living with indifference / Charles E. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Charles E.
- Series:
- Studies in Continental thought.
- Studies in Continental thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indifferentism (Ethics).
- Apathy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Indifference is the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it.
- Contents:
- Speaking of indifference
- Helen, truth, and the wisdom of nemesis
- Pythagoras, indifference, and the beautiful soul
- The indifference of finitude : Arendt and Heidegger
- Another look at "soul" : mimetic Geist
- Indifferent freedom
- In the name of goodness
- Indifferent love
- Trauma's presentation
- The appearance of public memory
- Wal-Mart and the heavens : the factor of indifference.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07847-X
- 9786612078477
- 0-253-11703-8
- OCLC:
- 476155580
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