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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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