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Irreducible Ends: Michael Weinstein and the Value of Agony and Happy Pessimism
Michael A. Weinstein: Action, Contemplation, Vitalism (2014)
  • Melba Vélez Ortiz
Abstract
Ethics is the locus of a perennial conflict between the one and the many. Weinstein's work is finely attuned to the vital drama that lies at the core of our human lives. The tug between our individual desires and our obligations to others permeates our daily existence perhaps as much as breathing. This Kierkegaardian view of the self as primarily “a relation of-itself to itself” is one of the many existential sensibilities that colors Weinstein's work. Weinstein's relationship to Kierkegaard is nuanced and conflicted though overall sympathetic. He ...
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December 14, 2014
Editor
Robert L. Oprisko and Irreducible Ends Diane Rubenstein
Publisher
Routledge
Series
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
ISBN
9781138013087
Citation Information
Melba Vélez Ortiz. "Irreducible Ends: Michael Weinstein and the Value of Agony and Happy Pessimism" 1stNew YorkMichael A. Weinstein: Action, Contemplation, Vitalism (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/melbavelezortiz/9/