Values: Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist

✍ Scribed by Andreas Urs Sommer

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Notes
Funding
Contents
Chapter 1: Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value?
Chapter 2: Ever More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?
Chapter 3: Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value?
Chapter 4: The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?
Chapter 5: At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)?
Chapter 6: Excursus I: Values and Human Rights
Chapter 7: The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned?
Chapter 8: Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do?
Chapter 9: An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values?
Chapter 10: Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera
Chapter 11: Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
Author Index
Subject Index