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Poverty and the Human Condition. A Philosophical Inquiry
| Author: | Jones, John | |
| Year: | 1990 | |
| Pages: | 396 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-273-9 978-0-88946-273-1 | |
| Price: | $239.95 | |
The first full-scale philosophical investigation into the meaning of poverty. A conceptual and phenomenological analysis of poverty, undertaken (1) to pose poverty as a philosophical problem in the context of a philosophy of human existence, and (2) to analyze the conceptual framework in which poverty is interpreted in other disciplines.
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"This is a unique book, a first -- a philosophical discussion of poverty, analysing its meanings as conditions of human life and part of the socio-economic structures of existence. . . . Jones's best insights occur in his critique of stigmatization of the poor as inauthenticity about one's own existential possibilities." -- Michael D. Barber in American Catholic Philosophical Qquarterly