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Alasdair MacIntyre : critic of modernity / Peter McMylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMylor, Peter, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Philosophy and social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Christianity and Marxism; Chapter 2 An excursus on the possibility of anAristotelian Marxism; Chapter 3 MacIntyre's evaluative history and Polanyi's historical sociology; Chapter 4 The morality of markets and the'crisis of authority'; Chapter 5 Managerialism and the culture of bureaucratic individualism; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-220) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-95014-4
- 0-415-04427-8
- 1-134-95015-2
- 1-280-13863-7
- 0-203-99103-6
- 9780203991039
- OCLC:
- 475953962
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