Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming - Rilegato

Dooley, Mark

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ISBN 10: 1472526155 ISBN 13: 9781472526151

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2015

Riassunto

Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooley's attempt to offer an alternative to 'Cyberia'. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging from those forms of life which once bound them together, it can be argued that our happiness depends on saving and conserving them. We cannot flourish in isolation or by detaching from the social sphere which surrounds us. We cannot truly prosper or progress if we choose to forget where we came from or if we dismiss our inherited moral wisdom. And yet, in opting for loss, separation and homelessness, it seems we have done just that. We have opted for a rootless existence where alienation and amnesia are the norm. This powerful and passionate book shows how the alienated, 'postmodern' self can become re-rooted to time and place and restored to full humanity and happiness whilst moving in a virtual, hyperconnected world. In caring for creation, conserving culture and saving the sacred we can once again make our home in the world and experience the consolation of moving from loss to love.

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Moral Matters is a wonderful compendium of common sense from a highly sophisticated and decidedly modern writer. Mark Dooley writes with passion, conviction and admirable clarity of the dilemmas and temptations that face us, in a world of instant communication and material abundance - the world he calls Cyberia. The result links past and future together in a way that casts a dazzling light on the present. Roger Scruton, philosopher and author of A Short History of Modern Philosophy and Kant: An Introduction You don't have to agree with everything that Mark Dooley says to be instructed by him. Moral Matters is a provocative critique of contemporary life and a bracing warning about what can go wrong in the postmodern world. --John D. Caputo, Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, USA and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Villanova University, USA

L'autore

Mark Dooley has held lectureships at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin. From 2003-2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009) and Why Be a Catholic? (2011).

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472526155
• ISBN 13: 9781472526151
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 209