Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire

Anna L. Peterson

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Paper, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14873-3
$24.50 / £17.00

August, 2009
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14872-6
$79.50 / £55.00

"Highly recommended." — Choice

"Anna L. Peterson has hit upon an important topic: that there is a profound disconnection between the private virtues we evince in caring personal relationships and the ethical decisions we make in the public arena. Exploring the reasons for this disconnection, Peterson contends that we need to generalize and project the best of our private virtues into the public sphere. Her book challenges readers to acknowledge this disconnection and seek ways to overcome it." — David Harmon, the George Wright Society

"Everyday Ethics and Social Change offers a different conception of utopia, as well as an unorthodox route to reach it. Anne L. Peterson does so in a thoughtful, sensible, sensitive way." — Anthony Cunningham, St. John's University, and author of The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Ethics

About the Author

Anna L. Peterson is professor of religion at the University of Florida and the author of Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World and Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas.

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