书名: Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity
作者: Peter Mcmylor (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (December 7, 1993)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415044278
ISBN-13: 978-0415044271
Book Description
Alasdair MacIntyre is widely recognised today as one of the most significant philosophers working in the English-speaking world. His intellectual impact has not been confined entirely to the world of philosophy for, unlike many technically minded philosophers, MacIntyre has avoided separating the issues of both general philosophy and moral philosophy from the social and historical context in which they are embedded.
This study seeks to set before a largely non-philosophically minded social science readership something of the social and cultural significance of MacIntyre's work. It does this by first outlining the main political and cultural influences that have shaped the outlook of MacIntyre's writing. The most important of these influences are undoubtedly, on the one hand, Christianity and, on the other, the Marxist tradition, as well as the broad intellectual inheritance of the classical world. This book argues that it is out of these traditions that MacIntyre has produced his radically distinctive critique of contemporary liberal societies. The book then examines the significance for the social sciences of MacIntyre's elaboration and restatement of an Aristotelian critique of the moral culture of modernity. MacIntyre's work is shown to be deeply connected to the historical narrative of social change presented by Karl Polanyi, and this work is shown to be more plausible than some contemporary critics would allow. MacIntyre's characterisation of modernity, as being based around an unfounded managerialist culture and a rhetorically emotivist moral discourse, is seen to reveal the potential of a critical social science based on Aristotelian moral categories.
Review
"A provocative tour-de-force . . . he showed that MacIntyre's early Christianity, his excursions into Marxism, his neo-Aristotelianism, his Hegelianism and his later Thomism are all parts of the same search for the virtuous community, for the authenticity of theory related to practice." -- Ioan Davies, York University, Canada
About the Author
Peter McMylor teaches in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University.
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作者: Peter Mcmylor (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (December 7, 1993)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415044278
ISBN-13: 978-0415044271
Book Description
Alasdair MacIntyre is widely recognised today as one of the most significant philosophers working in the English-speaking world. His intellectual impact has not been confined entirely to the world of philosophy for, unlike many technically minded philosophers, MacIntyre has avoided separating the issues of both general philosophy and moral philosophy from the social and historical context in which they are embedded.
This study seeks to set before a largely non-philosophically minded social science readership something of the social and cultural significance of MacIntyre's work. It does this by first outlining the main political and cultural influences that have shaped the outlook of MacIntyre's writing. The most important of these influences are undoubtedly, on the one hand, Christianity and, on the other, the Marxist tradition, as well as the broad intellectual inheritance of the classical world. This book argues that it is out of these traditions that MacIntyre has produced his radically distinctive critique of contemporary liberal societies. The book then examines the significance for the social sciences of MacIntyre's elaboration and restatement of an Aristotelian critique of the moral culture of modernity. MacIntyre's work is shown to be deeply connected to the historical narrative of social change presented by Karl Polanyi, and this work is shown to be more plausible than some contemporary critics would allow. MacIntyre's characterisation of modernity, as being based around an unfounded managerialist culture and a rhetorically emotivist moral discourse, is seen to reveal the potential of a critical social science based on Aristotelian moral categories.
Review
"A provocative tour-de-force . . . he showed that MacIntyre's early Christianity, his excursions into Marxism, his neo-Aristotelianism, his Hegelianism and his later Thomism are all parts of the same search for the virtuous community, for the authenticity of theory related to practice." -- Ioan Davies, York University, Canada
About the Author
Peter McMylor teaches in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University.
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