Abstract
Abstract This introductory chapter sets out an initial characterization of a paradigm in ethical and meta-ethical thought that the author labels existential modernism, whose representatives to be discussed in this book include Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Robert Musil. After an initial sketch of the general features of this paradigm, a chapter-by-chapter overview of the book’s itinerary explains why it is legitimate to speak of the distinctive common strands in these figures’ thought as instituting a tradition in ethical philosophy, which centres on a certain picture of the relation between affectivity and value and on a kind of ethical perfectionism.
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