What Really Matters Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2007
Verlag
KNV BesorgungSeitenzahl
274
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/1,7 cm
Gewicht
390 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-533132-5
Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, facing the utter chaos of a society where life has become meaningless. A Chinese doctor trying to stay alive during Mao's cultural revolution, discovering that the only values that matter are those that get you beyond the next threat. These individuals found themselves caught in circumstances
where those things that matter most to them-their desires, status, relationships, resources, political and religious commitments, life itself-have been challenged by the society around them. Each is caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human, with an intensity
that makes their life narratives arresting.
These stories reveal just how malleable moral life is, and just how central danger is to our worlds and our livelihood. Indeed, Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics, examining "who we are" through some of the most disturbing issues of our time-war, globalization, poverty, social injustice-all in the context of actual lived moral life.
"A fascinating and deeply entertaining book. For me at least, the richness of the book comes mainly from the stories Dr. Kleinman tells-complicated stories that confront life's miseries and renew the cheapened word 'inspiring.'"
-Tracy Kidder
"In this searingly written book, Arthur Kleinman takes us deep into the contrasting worlds of genuine reality and cultural pretense which he has spent so much of his life exploring. I have rarely read such a powerful portrayal of what Kleinman wonderfully calls 'the quality of anti-heroic everydayness.'"
-Jonathan D. Spence
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