Genesis Of Values
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品牌: Hans Joas
基本信息出版社:Polity (2000年10月26日)精装:264页正文语种:英语ISBN:0745621538条形码:9780745621531商品尺寸:23.6 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm商品重量:481 gASIN:0745621538商品描述内容简介One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of twentieth-century philosophy and social theory. Seeking to synthesize utilitarian and normativist approaches, Joas argues that only by appreciating the creative nature of human action can we understand how values and value commitments arise.
Values, Joas suggests, arise in experiences of self-formation and self-transcendence. He arrives at this thesis by tracing the tensions in the work of thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Max Scheler and John Dewey. He goes on to explore the work of Charles Taylor, and concludes with an examination of postmodern challenges to the concept of identity and with a provocative critique of Habermas's treatment of the relation between the right and the good. Throughout the book, Joas differentiates between values, norms and desires. He clarifies their respective role in the dynamics of human action, and explores how the ways we acquire values relate to the other ways in which we understand the world and ourselves.
This important book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy.作者简介Hans Joasis Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin.