The view from here: on affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Looking Backward (with Feeling) 2.1 For Sorrow There is No Remedy. 2.2 Regret and Agency 2.3 Preferences about the Past 2.4 Regret and Affirmation Chapter Three: Affirming the Unacceptable 3.1 The Young Girl's Child 3.2 Affirmation and Justification 3.3 Mixed Feelings 3.4 Meaning, Disability, and Politics Chapter Four: Luck, Justification, and Moral Complaint 4.1 Williams' Gauguin 4.2 Affirming One's Life 4.3 Affirmation, Justification, and Morality 4.4 Deep and Shallow Ambivalence Chapter Five: The Bourgeois Predicament 5.1 Meaning and its Conditions 5.2 Obstacles to Affirmation 5.3 The Bourgeois Predicament 5.4 Redemption, Withdrawal, Denial Chapter Six: A Somewhat Pessimistic Conclusion

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