The Genealogy of Values - Softcover

Andrew, Edward G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847680622 ISBN 13: 9780847680627

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

Until the time of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill, philosophers generally held economics to be an integral element of moral philosophy. These days, the language of values―moral, aesthetic, and cognitive―dominates philosophic discourse, even though contemporary philosophers rarely hold economics to be integral to moral philosophy. Examining the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and the art of Marcel Proust, Edward Andrew provides the first sustained critical analysis of values discourse, an analysis that deconstructs its content and its form.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward G. Andrew is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Shylock's Rights: A Grammar of Lockian Claims and Closing the Iron Cage: The Scientific Management of Leisure.

Review:

A very fine and provocative piece of research. (Bernard Yack, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Edward Andrew has done us a real service, by advancing a convincing account of the origins of this subjectivist language in which we are entangled. . . . we should look forward to Andrew's next book. (Gerald Owen Books In Canada)

...thought provoking... (Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, July 1998)

. . . ambitious and lucidly complex book . . . provacatively successful.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0847680622
• ISBN 13: 9780847680627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204