Values
Why We Need Them Although They Don't Exist
Published on 10. December 2023
Book
Hardback
XII, 159 pages
978-3-031-42158-7 (ISBN)
Description
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody's appealing to values, all the time - the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are.
Values
explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.
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Edition
1st ed. 2024
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 159 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
343 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-42158-7 (9783031421587)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€48.14
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Persons
Andreas Urs Sommer
is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and head of the "Nietzsche Commentary" research centre at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Content
1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value?.- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?.- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value?.- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?.- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)?.- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights.- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned?.- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do?.- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values?.- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera.- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.