Living with Indifference

Name: Living with Indifference
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ISBN: 9780253219008

ISBN-10: 0253219000

ISBN-13: 9780253219008

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles E. Scott

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Living with Indifference is about the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. In this provocative work that is anything but indifferent, Charles E. Scott explores the ways people have spoken and thought about indifference. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it. Scott's preoccupation with indifference issues a demand for focused attention in connection with personal values, ethics, and beliefs. This elegantly argued book speaks to the positive value of diversity and a world that is open to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Ethics. He is author of The Lives of Things (IUP, 2002) and co-editor of Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (IUP, 2001).



Acknowledgments



Speaking of Indifference



Helen, Truth, and the Wisdom of Nemesis



Pythagoras, Indifference, and the Beautiful Soul



The Indifference of Finitude: Arendt and Heidegger



Another Look at "Soul": Mimetic Geist



Indifferent Freedom



In the Name of Goodness



Indifferent Love



Trauma's Presentation



The Appearance of Public Memory



Wal-Mart and the Heavens: The Factor of Indifference


Index