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Towards a Phenomenological Axiology

Discovering What Matters

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  1. Roberta De Monticelli

    1. Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

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  • Provides a comprehensive phenomenology of value experience
  • Puts rigorous philosophy into the service of ordinary value experience
  • Offers a radical alternative to the nihilism of Nietzsche’s legacy

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 1-26

  3. Phenomenology of the Cynical Consciousness

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 27-51

  4. Where Is Socrates?

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 53-86

  5. The Normative Embodiment of Practical Reason

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 87-133

  6. Truth Suspended

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 135-192

  7. Value: Prolegomena to a Phenomenological Axiology

    • Roberta De Monticelli
    Pages 193-261

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 263-310
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About this book

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology). By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be integrated to practical reason. This project was prompted by the persuasion that the fragility of democracy, and the current public irrelevance of the ideal principles which support it, largely depend on the inability of modern philosophy to overcome the well-entrenched skepticism about the power of practical reason. The book begins with a phenomenology of cynical consciousness, continues with a survey of still influential theories of value rooted in 20th century philosophy, and finally offers an outline of a bottom-up axiology that revives the anti-skeptical legacy of phenomenology, without ignoring the standards set by contemporary metaethics.








Reviews

“De Monticelli’s book provides a means to restore the axiological underpinnings of careful moral debate that have been neglected or undermined by a century of indifferent sophistic foxes.” (Eugene Kelly, PHENOMENOLOGY AND MIND, Issue 23, 2022) “Confronted with the confusions and urgencies inherited from the twentieth century, Roberta De Monticelli’s theoretical effort to reconsider the distinction between philosophy and sophistry and to defend the axiological foundations of moral responsibility and verification enlightens us as to the route to follow. A handbook of intellectual and moral survival for our times!”


—Professor Emmanuel Faye, Université de Rouen Normandie, France


“A case for values in a world of facts, a return to Socrates in the land of disenchantment, a plea for philosophy in a time of challenges: a passionate message for everyone to ponder, realists and antirealists alike.”


— Achille Varzi, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Columbia University, New York, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

    Roberta De Monticelli

About the author

Roberta De Monticelli is currently Full Professor for Philosophy of Personhood at San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. She has been Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1989-2004). She is Chief Editor of  “Phenomenology and Mind”. Among her books: L’avenir de la phénoménologie (1997) and L'ascèse philosophique - Phénoménologie et Platonisme (1995).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards a Phenomenological Axiology

  • Book Subtitle: Discovering What Matters

  • Authors: Roberta De Monticelli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73983-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73982-9Published: 28 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73985-0Published: 29 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73983-6Published: 01 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 310

  • Topics: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Phenomenology

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