Description: Utilitarianism As a Way of Life : Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness, Hardcover by Schultz, Bart, ISBN 150955226X, ISBN-13 9781509552269, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Utilitarianism As a Way of Life : Re-envisioning Planetary Happin
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Utilitarianism As a Way of Life : Re-Envisioning Planetary Happiness
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: General, Movements / Utilitarianism
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Bart Schultz
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
