Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues
  • 2. Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the 'Apocalyptic View'
  • 3. 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy
  • 4. Second Nature, Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Bourdieu
  • 5. Practical Reason and Character-Formation
  • 6. Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative
  • 7. The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility
  • 8. The Varieties of Attention
  • 9. The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond
  • 10. Post-Existentialist Moments: Murdoch and Highsmith
  • 11. Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness
  • 12. Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Two Faces of Dialectical Reasoning
  • 13. Judith Butler on Political Agency
  • 14. Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index.