Alasdair Macintyre - Critic of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Peter McMylor Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Peter McMylor, Peter Martin Mcmylor, McMylor Peter, MCMYLOR PETER MARTIN
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.1993
• EAN: 9780415044264
• ISBN: 978-0-415-04426-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Biography: philosophy and social sciences