Fearing Together

Ethics for Insecurity

Ami Harbin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-753837-1 (ISBN)

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Fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures and fearing better a central part of our moral repair. We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible, but, as Ami Harbin argues, avoiding fear causes some of our greatest threats.

Fearing well is at the core of what it means to be responsible. By understanding fear as a relational practice, we can see that our relationships with other fearers shape what we fear, what fear feels like, how we identify and understand our fears, and how we cope with them. Bringing insights from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, political theory, and mindfulness research, Harbin guides readers in coming to grips with what kind of fearers we want to be and become and what we owe each other when facing what we cannot control. Grounded in real-life cases that will be of interest to many readers--policing, prisons, pandemic, vaccination, borders, migration, parenting, gender, sexuality, health care systems, and more--this text addresses the moral quandaries and complexities of the ethics of fearing together.

Ami Harbin is associate professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at Oakland University (MI), and author of Disorientation and Moral Life (Oxford, 2016).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Where Do Fears Come From?
1. A Picture of Acquisition: Identity and Independence
2. Perceived and Actual Threats
3. Coming to Fear Things Together
4. Conclusion
Chapter 2: What Is Fearing?
1. Fears, Causes, and Objects
2. Fear and Embodiment
3. Fearing with Others
4. Conclusion
Chapter 3: Compelling Fears
1. Nonstatistical Threats
2. Know Better, Fear Less
3. Displacement
4. Compelling Fears
5. Conclusion
Chapter 4: Controlling Threats
1. Removal
2. Escape
3. Destruction
4. Assimilation
5. Overpowering
6. Damage of Control
7. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Fearing Better
1. Developing Awareness of Our Practices and Habits of Compelling Fears
2. Alternative Modes of Fearing Together
3. Fearing Crisis Together
4. Conclusion
Notes
References

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	212 x 147 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-753837-1 / 0197538371
ISBN-13	978-0-19-753837-1 / 9780197538371
Zustand	Neuware