TY - BOOK AU - Irwin,William TI - The free market existentialist: capitalism without consumerism SN - 9781119121299 AV - B819 U1 - 142/.78 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Hoboken PB - Wiley Blackwell KW - Existentialism KW - Free enterprise KW - Capitalism KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Anti-realism KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - Movements KW - Critical Theory KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Philosophies of individualism -- Out, out, brief candle!?: what do you mean by existentialism? -- Like cigarettes and existentialism: why there is no necessary connection between Marxism and Sartre -- To consume or not to consume?: how existentialism helps capitalism -- Why nothing is wrong: moral anti-realism -- Not going to hell in a handbasket: existentialism and a world without morality -- What's mine is mine: moral anti-realism and property rights -- Who's afraid of the free market?: moral anti-realism and the minimal state -- Not your father's existentialism N2 - Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. -Argues that Sartre's existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism -Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax -Confronts the "final delusion" of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world -Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of topics across philosophy including atheism, evolutionary theory, and ethics UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119121312 ER -