Sommer, Andreas Urs. <br/><br/>
Values  Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist /  [electronic resource] : 
by Andreas Urs Sommer. 
 - 1st ed. 2024. 
 - XII, 159 p.  online resource. 
<br/><br/>1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value? -- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There? -- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value? -- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To? -- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)? -- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights -- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned? -- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do? -- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values? -- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera -- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?. 
<br/><br/> In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783031421594 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4  doi 
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1-1725