Materialist Ethics and Life-Value
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 9780773539655
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments xi; title: Introduction: Ethics and Materialist Philosophy 3; title: Part one: Materialism, Human Finitude, and Ethics; title: 1 Materialism 17; title: 2 The Life-Ground of Value in Human Life-Requirements 46; title: Part two: Life-Grounded Materialist Ethical Criticism; title: 3 The Emergence of System-Requirements 89; title: 4 The Life-Blind Logic of Social Expansion 107; title: 5 The Instrumentalization of Life-Value: the Material Irrationality of Global Capitalism 134; title: Part three: Life-Grounded Materialist Ethics and the Human Good; title: 6 The Human Good as Free Life-Capacity Expression and Enjoyment 183; title: Conclusion: Institutional and Political Implications 211; title: Bibliography 219; title: Index 231