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This book includes revisions of papers originally presented at the inaugural conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy, on the theme of Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, hosted by the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. The papers selected are by fifteen leading international philosophers and political theorists. Writing from a variety of perspectives, they address MacIntyre's accounts of Aristotelianism, Thomism and Marxism, his virtue ethics and metaethics, the development of his philosophical project, and his critiques of managerialism, capitalism and liberalism. The book concludes with an extensive response by MacIntyre, in which he clarifies his past arguments, his present position, and his relation to rival theories of moral, political and social practice.
List of contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- Maclntyre's Aristotelianism -- Maclntyre and the Polis -- Men at Work: Poesis, Politics and Labor in Aristotle and Some Aristotelians -- After Tradition?: Heidegger or Maclntyre, Aristotle and Marx -- Maclntyre's Thomism -- The Uniqueness of After Virtue (or 'Against Hindsight') -- Maclntyre, Thomism and the Contemporary Common Good -- From Voluntarist Nominalism to Rationalism to Chaos: Alasdair Maclntyre's Critique of Modern Ethics -- Metaethics -- Maclntyre's Search for a Defensible Aristotelian Ethics and the Role of Metaphysics -- Maclntyre's Radical Intellectualism: The Philosopher as a Moral Ideal -- Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World -- Moral Philosophy, Moral Identity and Moral Cacophony: On Maclntyre on the Modern Self -- The Critique of Liberalism and Capitalism -- Utopias and the Art of the Possible -- Misunderstanding Maclntyre on Human Rights -- Alasdair Maclntyre's Contribution to Marxism: A Road not Taken -- Why Business Cannot Be a Practice -- Ethics, Markets, and Maclntyre -- Reply -- What More Needs to Be Said? A Beginning, Although Only a Beginning, at Saying It -- Authors
