Making of the Good Person

Making of the Good Person

Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy

Haemaelaeinen, Nora

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

252

Mole

9781032390116

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1. Introduction Part 1: Reading the Self-help Culture 2. What is Self-help? 3. Plural Histories of Self-help 4. Self-help and Governmentality 5. We Have Always Been Governed Part 2: Philosophy as a Self-transformative Practice 6. Transformative Hopes in Philosophy 7. Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice 8. Foucault's Two Faces? 9. Murdoch's Platonic Ascent 10. Wittgenstein's Therapy 11. Cavell's Ethics of Becoming 12. Ways Forward
Nora Haemaelaeinen;self-help;self-transformation;therapy;Ludwig Wittgenstein;Michel Foucault;Pierre Hadot;Stanley Cavell;Iris Murdoch;descriptive ethics;normality;self-improvement;personhood;governmentality;emotional capitalism;picturing;fact-value dichotomy;technologies of the self;moral ascent;philosophy as therapy;Self-help Literature;moral change;Good Life;Self-transformative Practice;Timeless;Popular Self-help;Self-help Culture;Contemporary Societies;Dense;Young Men;Wittgenstein's Work;Ancient Philosophical Schools;Analytic Moral Philosophy;Self-help Books;Vice Versa;Ancient Philosophy;Modern Moral Philosophy;Self-help Phenomenon;Moral Philosophy;Follow;Human Kinds;Murdoch's Work;Cavell's Reading;Therapeutic Readings