Bart Schultz: Utilitarianism as a Way of Life, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Utilitarianism as a Way of Life
- Re-Envisioning Planetary Happiness
- Verlag:
- Polity Press, 11/2024
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781509552276
- Artikelnummer:
- 11812278
- Umfang:
- 224 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 397 g
- Maße:
- 228 x 153 mm
- Stärke:
- 24 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 13.11.2024
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Klappentext
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.
