Peter McMylor

Alasdair MacIntyre

Critic of Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780415044264
• ISBN-10: 041504426X
• Artikelnr.: 21390551

Autorenporträt

Peter McMylor

Inhaltsangabe

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