William James and the Moral Life - Responsible Self-Fashioning

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James' moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James' performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation.

List of contents

Introduction: Why William James and Ethics?
Chapter One: Pragmatist Moral Philosophy and Moral Life: Embracing the Tensions
Chapter Two: Ideals and Significant Lives
Chapter Three: The Sources of Moral Agency
Chapter Four: Existential Deliberation
Chapter Five: Moving Marginal Subjects Into Focus
Conclusion

About the author

Todd Lekan is Associate Dean and Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA.

Summary

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James’ performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Lekan, Lekan Todd
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032226460
• ISBN: 978-1-032-22646-0
• No. of pages: 146
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Pragmatism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -