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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226556646
ISBN-13
9780226556642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60300305
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bourgeois Virtues : Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Number of Pages
634 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Economic History, Business Ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Commerce
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
31.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
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TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
174
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Apology: A Brief for the Bourgeois Virtues I. Exordium: The Good Bourgeois II. Narratio: How Ethics Fell III. Probatio A: Modern Capitalism Makes Us Richer IV. Probatio B: And Lets Us Live Longer V. Probatio C: And Improves Our Ethics VI. Refutatio: Anticapitalism Is Bad for Us VII. Peroratio 1. The Very Word "Virtue" 2. The Very Word "Bourgeois" 3. On Not Being Spooked by the Word "Bourgeois" Part 1 - The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Love 4. The First Virtue: Love Profane and Sacred 5. Love and the Transcendent 6. Sweet Love vs. Interest 7. Bourgeois Economists against Love 8. Love and the Bourgeoisie Part 2 - The Christian and Feminine Virtues: Faith and Hope 10. Faith as Identity 11. Hope and Its Banishment 12. Against the Sacred 13. Van Gogh and the Transcendent Profane 14. Humility and Truth 15. Economic Theology Part 3 - The Pagan and Masculine Virtues: Courage, with Temperance 16. The Good of Courage 17. Anachronistic Courage in the Bourgeoisie 18. Taciturn Courage against the "Feminine" 19. Bourgeois vs. Queer 20. Balancing Courage 21. Prudence Is a Virtue 22. The Monomania of Immanuel Kant 23. The Storied Character of Virtue 24. Evil as Imbalance, Inner and Outer: Temperance and Justice 25. The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois Part 5 - Systematizing the Seven Virtues 26. The System of the Virtues 27. A Philosophical Psychology? 28. Ethical Striving 29. Ethical Realism 30. Against Reduction 31. Character(s) 32. Antimonism Again 34. Dropping the Virtues, 1532-1958 35. Other Lists 36. Eastern and Other Ways 37. Needing Virtues Part 6 - The Bourgeois Uses of the Virtues 38. P & S and the Capitalist Life 39. Sacred Reasons 40. Not by P Alone 41. The Myth of Modern Rati
Synopsis
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"-all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues , a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities-from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich-overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism's critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon , Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life's work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism-and a surprising page-turner., McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns assumptions about being bourgeois. Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics," she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults., For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"--all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues , a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism's critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon , Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life's work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism--and a surprising page-turner.
LC Classification Number
HB501.M5534 2007
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