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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPeterson, Anna
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEveryday Ethics and Social Change :
_bThe Education of Desire /
_cAnna Peterson.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (216 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. A PRESENCE AND A BEGINNING --
_t2. LOVE AND POLITICS --
_t3. ETHICS, PARENTING, AND CHILDHOOD --
_t4. ENCOUNTERING NATURE --
_t5. IDEAS AND PRACTICES: MINDING THE GAP --
_t6. TOWARD AN IMMANENTLY UTOPIAN PO LITI CAL ETHIC --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAmericans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman creatures, we practice a nonutilitarian morality that makes sacrifice a rational and reasonable choice. Recognizing these everyday ethics, Anna L. Peterson argues, helps us move past the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of culture and refocus on issues that affect real social change.Peterson begins by divining a "second language" for personal and political values, a vocabulary derived from the loving and mutually beneficial relationships of daily life. Even if our interactions with others are fleeting and fragmentary, they provide a viable alternative to the contractual and atomistic attitudes of mainstream culture. Everyday ethics point toward a more just, humane, and sustainable society, and to acknowledge moments of grace in our daily encounters is to realize a different way of relating to people and nonhuman nature—an alternative ethic to cynicism and rank consumerism. In redefining the parameters of morality, Peterson enables us to make fundamental problems such as the distribution of wealth, the use of public land and natural resources, labor and employment policy, and the character of political institutions the preferred focus of debate and action.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aSocial change.
650 0 _aValues.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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