Joas H. The Genesis of Values

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. — 250 p.Without ever really having been planned, this book had its origin in two sorts of questions, which in recent years were put to me time and
time again. One type of question arose out of the debates surrounding liberalism and communitarianism, the other from the discussions of
the book on the theory of action.
This book asks a clear question: how do values and value commitments arise? And it seeks to supply an equally clear answer to this
question: values arise in experiences of self-formation and selftranscendence.Formulating the Question
The Genesis of Values as Genealogy of Morality? (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (William James)
Collective Ecstasy (£mile Durkheim)
The Immanence of Transcendence (Georg Simmel)
The Value-Feeling and its Object (Max Scheler)
Shattering Intersubjectivity (John Dewey)
Identity and the Good (Charles Taylor)
The Concept of Self and its Postmodern Challenge
Values and Norms: The Good and the Right