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What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger
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In this moving and thoughtprovoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century.Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A FrenchAmerican woman aiding refugees in subSaharan Africa, facing the utter chaos of a society where life has become meaningless. A Chinese doctor trying to stay alive during Maos cultural revolution, discovering that the only values that matter are those that get you beyond the next threat. These individuals found themselves caught in circumstances where those things that matter most to themtheir desires, status, relationships, resources, political and religious commitments, life itselfhave been challenged by the society around them. Each is caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human, with an intensity that makes their life narratives arresting.These stories reveal just how malleable moral life is, and just how central danger is to our worlds and our livelihood. Indeed, Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics, examining who we are through some of the most disturbing issues of our timewar, globalization, poverty, social injusticeall in the context of actual lived moral life.
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