Description: Further DetailsTitle: Utilitarianism as a Way of LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Re-envisioning Planetary HappinessEAN: 9781509552276ISBN: 9781509552276Publisher: Polity PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/06/2024Description: Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can justify anything – the list goes on. It has been implicated in the horrors of settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism, both historically and today, as the neoliberal world order faces a profound legitimation crisis.Bart Schultz argues that utilitarian philosophy must be decolonized and reimagined for the current moment: a time of new and looming existential threats, in a world desperate for social change. Where dominant ethical and political approaches have failed to adequately deal with the enormous challenges we face, utilitarianism – as a set of lived practices, not simply a theoretical construction – may hold out some hope of seriously addressing them. Drawing on alternatives to the well-known Eurocentric story of utilitarianism (and an extensive review and critique of that story) and incorporating the works of Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Derek Parfit, Martha Nussbaum, and other major philosophers, Schultz crafts a groundbreaking new framework of utilitarianism born of struggle and resistance.Utilitarianism as a Way of Life is an essential text for scholars and students of philosophy, political science, economics, decolonization studies, gender studies, psychology, environmental studies, and related fields.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 397gAuthor: Bart SchultzGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Utilitarianism as a Way of Life
Title: Utilitarianism as a Way of Life
Subtitle: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness
EAN: 9781509552276
ISBN: 9781509552276
Release Date: 09/06/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Utilitarianism As a Way of Life : Re-Envisioning Planetary Happiness
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: General, Movements / Utilitarianism
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Bart Schultz
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
