A world without why /

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Author / Creator:Geuss, Raymond, author.
Uniform title:Essays. Selections.
Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Description:xvi, 264 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918292
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ISBN:9780691155883 (hardcover)
0691155887 (hardcover)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Goals, Origins, Disciplines
  • 2. Vix intellegitur
  • 3. Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century
  • 4. Must Criticism Be Constructive?
  • 5. The Loss of Meaning on the Left
  • 6. Authority: Some Fables
  • 7. A Note on Lying
  • 8. Politics and Architecture
  • 9. The Future of Theological Ethics
  • 10. Did Williams Do Ethics?
  • 11. The Wisdom of Oedipus and the Idea of a Moral Cosmos
  • 12. Who Ms the First Philosopher?
  • 13. A World without Why
  • Notes
  • Index