A world without why - Geuss, Raymond (Princeton Princeton University Press, 2014)
Goals, origins, disciplines -- Vix intellegitur -- Marxism and the ethos of the twentieth century -- Must criticism be constructive? -- The loss of meaning on the left -- Authority: some fables -- A note on lying -- Politics and architecture -- The future of theological ethics -- Did Williams do ethics? -- The wisdom of Oedipus and the idea of a moral cosmos -- Who was the first philosopher? -- A world without why.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Keywords: Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century; Optimism; Ethics