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The free market existentialist : capitalism without consumerism / William Irwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irwin, William, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Existentialism.
- Free enterprise.
- Capitalism.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. Argues that Sartre's existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax Confronts the "final delusion" of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of
- Contents:
- Philosophies of individualism
- Out, out, brief candle!?: what do you mean by existentialism?
- Like cigarettes and existentialism: why there is no necessary connection between Marxism and Sartre
- To consume or not to consume?: how existentialism helps capitalism
- Why nothing is wrong: moral anti-realism
- Not going to hell in a handbasket: existentialism and a world without morality
- What's mine is mine: moral anti-realism and property rights
- Who's afraid of the free market?: moral anti-realism and the minimal state
- Not your father's existentialism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119121305
- 1119121302
- 9781119121312
- 1119121310
- 9781119121299
- 1119121299
- OCLC:
- 910802642
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