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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
18.01.2023
Verlag
Harvard University PressSeitenzahl
346 (Printausgabe)
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1193 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780674973954
"Seamlessly combines analytic rigor with personal memoir... its arguments are drawn from political history... Biblical commentary... novels and biographies." (Amélie Rorty, Tufts University) Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain between ethics and morality, between thick and thin human relations.On Betrayaloffers a philosophical account of thick human relations?relationships with friends, family, and core communities?through their pathology, betrayal. Judgments of betrayal often shift unreliably. A traitor to one side is a hero to the other. Yet the notion of what it means to betray is remarkably consistent across cultures and eras. Betrayal undermines thick trust, dissolving the glue that holds our most meaningful relationships together.On Betrayalis about ethics: what we owe to the people and groups that give us our sense of belonging. Drawing on literary, historical, and personal sources, Maraglit examines what our thick relationships are and should be and revives the long-discarded notion of fraternity. "Provocative and illuminating." -Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study "Witty and wise, precise and profound,On Betrayalis an easy but deep read: it sees life as it really is with all its turmoil." -The Christian Century "The range of Margalit's examples is astonishing.... He is much more knowledgeable about and comfortable with communities (and in communities) than most philosophers are, and so he is very good at recognizing when they go wrong." -New York Review of Books
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