Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter A. French holds the Cole Chair in Ethics and is professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the cofounder and senior editor of Midwest Studies in Philosophy and editor of The Journal of Social Philosophy.

Zusammenfassung

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter A. Finch, Peter A. French, French Peter A.
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.10.1997
• EAN: 9780847686711
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8671-1
• Seiten: 192
• Abmessung: 151 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 290 g
• Serien: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy; Studies in Social, Political,; Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism