Radical Hope : Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.

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Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is pre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lear, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, April 2008.
Temas:
Crow Indians > Social life and customs.
Ethics.
Social change.
Social sciences and ethics.
Crow > Mœurs et coutumes.
Morale.
Sciences sociales et morale.
ethics (philosophy)
Crow Indians > Social life and customs
Ethics
Social change
Social sciences and ethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • I. After this , nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry
  • II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope
  • III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle's Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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