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The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
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The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World Hardback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Cheryl Mendelson

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"The Good Life" is a deeply reasoned, readable, and exciting polemic about the hijacking of the idea of morality by the political right and about the distortions of it in American culture--in business, social life, law, science, and academia.

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The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy. Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots, and how a humane democracy, with its freedoms, depends on the moral sense of its citizens.

Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions, free of ideology, of what morality really is, tracing it to its psychological roots, and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism, the culture of cool, irrationalist movements in politics and religion, and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life. Along the way, she gives a clear, persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesn't force us to be dogmatic and judgmental. Mendelson's book is a bracing polemic, but it is also inspiring and, with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality, an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.

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  • Title The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
  • Author Cheryl Mendelson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, NY USA
  • Publication date 2012-06
  • Features Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9781608198313 / 1608198316
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.83 x 1.19 in (21.54 x 14.81 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Ethical
    • Topical: New Age
  • Category New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Ethics, Modern
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011048738
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170

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  • Entertainment Weekly, 06/01/2012, Page 123
  • New Yorker (The), 09/03/2012, Page 69
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/14/2012, Page 64

About the author

Cheryl Mendelson is the author of the bestselling Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, as well as three novels. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has practiced law in New York City and teaches philosophy at Barnard College. Her next book, on the subject of marriage, is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2013. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
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