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Sobering Wisdom: Philosophical Explorations of Twelve Step Spirituality
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Miller, Jerome A.; Plants, Nicholas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPX; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Step program now provides life direction for the millions of people worldwide who are recovering from addiction and undergoing profound personal transformation. Yet thus far it has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers, despite the fact that, like philosophy, the program addresses all-important questions regarding how we ought to live. In Sobering Wisdom, Jerome A. Miller and Nicholas Plants offer a unique approach to the Twelve Step program by exploring its spirituality from a philosophical point of view.
Drawing on a variety of thinkers from Aristotle to William James and from Nietzsche ... Read more
Originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Step program now provides life direction for the millions of people worldwide who are recovering from addiction and undergoing profound personal transformation. Yet thus far it has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers, despite the fact that, like philosophy, the program addresses all-important questions regarding how we ought to live. In Sobering Wisdom, Jerome A. Miller and Nicholas Plants offer a unique approach to the Twelve Step program by exploring its spirituality from a philosophical point of view.
Drawing on a variety of thinkers from Aristotle to William James and from Nietzsche ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936529
SKU
V9780813936529
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About
Jerome A. Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Salisbury University, USA and the author of In the Throe of Wonder: Intimations of the Sacred in a Post-Modern World and The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis. Nicholas Plants is Professor of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College, USA.
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