The view from here on affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret
'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 deci...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37669710*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Bourgeois predicament
- Redemption, withdrawal, denial
- Somewhat pessimistic conclusion.
