The MacIntyre reader / edited by Kelvin Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Contributor:

Knight, Kelvin.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and social sciences.

Aristotle.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

Summary:

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological arguments of an updated Thomistic Aristotelianism. It is this tradition, he claims, which presents the best theory so far about the nature of rationality, morality, and politics. This is the first reader of MacIntyre's groundbreaking work. It includes extracts from and his own synopses of two famous books from the 1980s, After Virtue and Whose Justice? Which Rationality? as well as the whole of several shorter works and two interviews. Together, these pieces constitute not only a representative collection of his work but also the most powerful and accessible presentation of his arguments yet available. The MacIntyre Reader concludes with Kelvin Knight's clear and insightful overview of MacIntyre's central ideas and their development in his writings. Students will find this book an excellent introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-297) and index.

ISBN:

0268014361

026801437X

OCLC:

39157654