Icarus fallen
Subtitle: the search for meaning in an uncertain world
By: Chantal Delsol ; translated by Robin Dick.
Contributors: Dick, Robin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Crosscurrents; Crosscurrents (Wilmington, Del.)
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Wilmington, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Meaning (Philosophy); Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Virgil P. Nemoianu; title: Translator's preface; title: Author's preface to the English edition; title: Introduction; title: Part One : A condition deprived of meaning : Existence as sign; title: The rejection of the figures of existence; title: Black markets; title: The danger of a return to existentialism; title: Part Two : The revelations of the devil : The good without the true; title: The morality of complacency; title: A morality of emotion and indignation; title: The clandestine ideology of our time; title: Part Three : The urgent need for a new anthropology : Is democracy unsurpassable?; title: The rejection of the worldviews; title: The fear of decision-making; title: The sacralization of rights; title: Utopian equality; title: Production and care-giving; title: Part Four : Mastering the world in a different way : Fallen from the heights; title: Fragmented existence; title: God in exile; title: The return of an uncertain world; title: On vigilance; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Index.