The Cost of Comfort

List of contents

Preface

1. Comfort

2. Discomfort

3. A Broken and an Integrated World

4. Complete and Dismembered Actions

5. Mediation

6. Philosophical Excursion: Hegel and Peirce on Mediation

7. Five Consequences of Mediation

8. (A) Passivity

9. (B) Impotence

10. (C) Ignorance

11. (D) Manipulation

12. (E) Psychic Distance

13. (F) Irresponsibility

14. Major Mediators: Tools

15. Major Mediators: Language

16. Major Mediators: Ideology

17. Major Mediators: Institutions

18. Major Mediators: Government

19. Mediated Immediacies

20. Eliminate Mediation?

21. Ineffective Ways of Dealing with Mediation

22. Pre-Existing Values

23. Advertising

24. Openness

25. Transparency

26. Education

27. The Power of Immediacy

28. Immediacy and Politics

29. New Rules of Responsibility

Conclusion

About the author

John Lachs

Product details

• Authors: John Lachs
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9780253043177
• ISBN: 978-0-253-04317-7
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 152 g
• Series: American Philosophy
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day