The view from here : on affirmation, attachment, and the limits of regret / R. Jay Wallace.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking backward (with feeling) -- For sorrow there is no remedy -- Regret and agency -- Preferences about the past -- Regret and affirmation -- Affirming the unacceptable -- Young girl's child -- Affirmation and justification -- Mixed feelings -- Meaning, disability, and politics -- Luck, justification, and moral complaint -- Williams Gauguin -- Affirming one's life -- Affirmation, justification, and morality -- Deep and shallow ambivalence -- Bourgeois predicament -- Meaning and its conditions -- Obstacles to affirmation -- Bourgeois predicament -- Redemption, withdrawal, denial -- Somewhat pessimistic conclusion.

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'The View from Here' is a study of our most fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our attachments commit us to affirming events or decisions that we know to have been unfortunate or regrettable.

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