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Overview"An analytical exploration of what it means to live a good life. Ever since Adam Smith's musings on ""the invisible hand"" became more famous than his work on moral sentiments, social theorists started to pay less attention to everyday ethics and aesthetics. Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand posits that social outcomes emerge by dint of the behaviors of individuals rather than their intentions or virtues. Modernist and scientific approaches to determining the common good or good forms of governance have increasingly relied on techniques of generalization, rationalization, and universalization. Everyday ethics and aesthetics--and recently also matters of truth--came to be regarded as individual matters of taste. This shift, however, has meant that we no longer comprehend why and how people display a deep concern with everyday life values in their social practices. People continue to enact these values and live by them while academics lack the vocabulary and methods to grasp them. By reconstructing the history of ideas about everyday-life values, and by analyzing the role of such values in contemporary care practices for patients with chronic disease in the Netherlands, Reinventing the Good Life seeks to explore new ways to study the values of everyday life, particularly in situations where the achievement of a clear-cut or uniform good is unlikely. The book presents a practice-based epistemology and methodology for studying everyday care practices and supporting their goodness. This analytical approach ultimately aims to generate ideas that will allow us to relate in more imaginative ways to the many pressing concerns that we are forced to live with today." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeannette PolsPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781800086036ISBN 10: 1800086032 Publication Date: 04 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJeannette Pols is Professor of Anthropology of Everyday Ethics in Healthcare at the University of Amsterdam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |