Alasdair MacIntyre

Critic of Modernity

Peter McMylor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

1993
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-04426-4 (ISBN)

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This is the first full-length account of MacIntyre's work for the social sciences. His work is shown to provide the resources for a powerful critique of liberalism and as the inspiration for a critical social science of Modernity.

This book is the first full length account of the significance of MacIntyre's work for the social sciences. MacIntyre's moral philosophy is shown to provide the resources for a powerful crititque of liberalism. His dicussion of the managerist and emotivist roots of modern culture is seen as the inspiration for a critical social science of Modernity

Peter McMylor

Part I MacIntyre—Christianity and/or Marxism? 1 Christianity and Marxism: acceptance and Rejection 2 An excursus on the possibility of an Aristotelian Marxism Part II Markets, managers and the virtues 3 MacIntyre’s evaluative history and Polanyi’s historical sociology 4 The morality of markets and the ‘crisis of authority’: notes for a sociology in a world after virtue 5 Managerialism and the culture of bureaucratic individualism 6 Conclusion: narrative and communities

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.11.1993
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-415-04426-X / 041504426X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-04426-4 / 9780415044264
Zustand	Neuware