Download PDF/Epub Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation Writen By Jonathan Lear

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

By : Jonathan Lear

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Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story?up to a certain point. ?When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,? he said, ?and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.? It is precisely this point?that of a people faced with the end of their way of life?that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear?s view, Plenty Coups?s story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one?s culture might collapse?This is a vulnerability that affects us all?insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization, and civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces. How should we live with this vulnerability? Can we make any sense of facing up to such a challenge courageously? Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to

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Author : Jonathan Lear

Pages : 187 pages

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0674027469

ISBN-13 : 9780674027466

 
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