The Good Life

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The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World

Cheryl Mendelson

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Bloomsbury Publishing
01 July 2012

Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Popular philosophy

The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy.

Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots, and how a humane democracy, with its freedoms, depends on the moral sense of its citizens.

Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions, free of ideology, of what morality really is, tracing it to its psychological roots, and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism, the culture of ""cool,"" irrationalist movements in politics and religion, and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life.

Along the way, she gives a clear, persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesn't force us to be dogmatic and judgmental.

Mendelson's book is a bracing polemic, but it is also inspiring and, with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality, an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.

By: Cheryl Mendelson
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 475g
ISBN: 9781408833674
ISBN 10: 1408833670
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cheryl Mendelson is the author of the bestselling Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, as well as three novels. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has practiced law in New York City and teaches philosophy at Barnard College. Her next book, on the subject of marriage, is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2013. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Reviews for The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World

The very definitions of morality and goodness are nastily contested political flash points, and Mendelson, in a forceful but compassionate argument, shows how this has affected our culture. * Entertainment Weekly * Powerful, meaningful, and thorough... She is not neutral in her gritty analysis...Her style, clean and sharp and heavily footnoted, does not suffer minds 'immune to reason.' * Publishers Weekly (starred) * An extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next * Newsweek on HOME COMFORTS * The bible of good housekeeping * People on HOME COMFORTS * Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food * USA Today on HOME COMFORTS * I couldn't put it down. * Cynthia Crossen, Wall Street Journal, on HOME COMFORTS *