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What is the good life?
- Title
- What is the good life? / Luc Ferry ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
- Author
- Ferry, Luc.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
- Contributor biographical information
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- Description
- x, 320 p.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Qu'est-ce qu'une vie réussie? English
- Alternative Title
- Qu'est-ce qu'une vie réussie?
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-310) and index.
- Contents
- Creating the good life : metamorphoses of the ideal -- Beyond morality, after religion : the new age of the question -- The meaning of the question & the slow humanization of the responses -- The Nietzschean moment : the good life as the most intense life -- On transcendence as supreme illusion, the twilight of the idols, or how to philosophize with a hammer : the end of the world, the death of God, & the death of man -- The foundations & arguments of Nietzschean materialism -- The wisdom of Nietzsche, or The three criteria of the good life : truth in art, intensity in the grand style, eternity in the instant -- After Nietzsche, four versions of life after the death of God : daily life, the bohemian life, the life of enterprise, or life freed from alienation -- The wisdom of the ancients : life in harmony with the cosmic order -- Greek wisdom, or The first image of a lay spirituality : the secularization of salvation -- The "cosmologico-ethical" : power and the charms of moralities inscribed in the cosmos -- An ideal-type of ancient wisdom : the case of stoicism -- The here & now enchanted by the beyond -- Death finally conquered by immortality : philosophy replaced by religion -- The renascence of lay philosophy & the humanization of the good life -- A humanism of the man-God : the good life as a life in harmony with the human condition -- Materialism, religion, & humanism -- A new approach to the question of happiness.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-5962
- ISBN
- 0226244539 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226101385 (paperback)
- 022610138X (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2004020135
- OCLC
- 56481746
- Author
- Ferry, Luc.
- Title
- What is the good life? / Luc Ferry ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-310) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-5962