The view from here : on affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret / R. Jay Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, R. Jay, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Values.

Life change events.

Regret.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)

Other Title:

On affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The View from Here' is a study of our most fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our attachments commit us to affirming events or decisions that we know to have been unfortunate or regrettable.

Contents:

Looking backward (with feeling)

For sorrow there is no remedy

Regret and agency

Preferences about the past

Regret and affirmation

Affirming the unacceptable

Young girl's child

Affirmation and justification

Mixed feelings

Meaning, disability, and politics

Luck, justification, and moral complaint

Williams Gauguin

Affirming one's life

Affirmation, justification, and morality

Deep and shallow ambivalence

Bourgeois predicament

Meaning and its conditions

Obstacles to affirmation

Redemption, withdrawal, denial

Somewhat pessimistic conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Mar. 12, 2013).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-091868-3