The Call of Character : : Living a Life Worth Living /

The Call of Character : : Living a Life Worth Living / / Mari Ruti.

Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of cha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Ruti, Mari,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. The Art of Self-Fashioning
  • 1. The Call of Character
  • 2. The Process of Becoming
  • 3. The Specificity of Desire
  • Part II. The Art of Self-Responsibility
  • 4. The Blueprints of Behavior
  • 5. The Alchemy of Relationality
  • 6. The Ethics of Responsibility
  • Part III. The Art of Self-Surrender
  • 7. The Swerve of Passion
  • 8. The Upside of Anxiety
  • 9. The Erotics of Being
  • Notes
  • Index

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