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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. I. After this , nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry 1
5. II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope 55
6. III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle’s Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull 103
7. Notes 157
8. Acknowledgments 179
9. Index 181