J Jeremy Wisnewski

The Politics of Agency

Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically obscured the normative dimension in these theories and that recognizing this normative dimension allows us to see that a pragmatic approach to theories of agency, either in social science or moral philosophy, is more appropriate. As well as offering a vigorous presentation of the pragmatic-therapeutic account of agency Wisnewski also engages critically with three rival accounts from Nietzsche, Foucault and Rorty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780754655312
• ISBN-10: 0754655318
• Artikelnr.: 44789628

Autorenporträt

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hartwick College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Assertions, clarifications and recommendations: outline of an approach to theories of human agency
The nature of human agency: the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism
Constitutive rules and critical theory
Returning to the argument: atomism, holism and the social conditions of agency
Theory and the trouble with agency
Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency
Bibliography
Index.