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The call of character : living a life worth living /
Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existential equilibrium realistic or even desirable? Condemning our cultural obsession with cheerfulness and?positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character that honors our more ecce...
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Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The call of character : |b living a life worth living / |c Mari Ruti. |
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| 520 | |a Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existential equilibrium realistic or even desirable? Condemning our cultural obsession with cheerfulness and?positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character that honors our more eccentric frequencies, arguing that sometimes the most tormented and anxiety-ridden life can also be the most rewarding. Ruti critiques our current search for personal meaning and the pragmatic attempt to normalize human beings' unruly and idiosyncratic natures. Exposing the tragic banality of a happy life commonly lived, she instead emphasizes the advantages of a lopsided life rich in passion and fortitude. She also shows what matters is not our ability to evade existential uncertainty but our courage to meet adversity in such a way that we do not become irrevocably broken | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a pt. I The art of self-fashioning -- 1. The call of character -- 2. The process of becoming -- 3. The specificity of desire -- pt. II The art of self-responsibilty -- 4. The blueprints of behavior -- 5. The alchemy of relationality -- 6. The ethics of responsibility -- pt. III The art of self-surrender -- 7. The swerve of passion -- 8. The upside of anxiety -- 9. The erotics of being. | |
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