Against the self-images of the age : essays on ideology and philosophy / Alasdair C. MacIntyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacIntyre, Alasdair C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Ideology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2001]

Summary:

MacIntyre successively criticizes Christianity, Marxism, and psychoanalysis for their failure to express the forms of thought and action that constitute our contemporary social life, and argues that a greater understanding of our complex world will require a more thorough inquiry into the philosophy of the social sciences.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE

1. The end of ideology and the end of the end of ideology

2. God and the theologians

3. Psychoanalysis: the future of an illusion?

4. The socialism of R. H. Tawney

5. How not to write about Lenin

6. How not to write about Stalin

7. Trotsky in exile

8. Marxist mask and romantic face: Lukacs on Thomas Mann

9. Marxism of the wilI

10. Pascal and Marx: On Lucien Goldmann's Hidden God

PART TWO

11. Philosophy and ideology: Introduction to Part Two

12. What morality is not

13. Hume on ""is"" and ""ought

14. Imperatives, reasons for action, and morals

15. "Ought

16. Some more about ""ought

17. Pleasure as a reason for action

18. The antecedents of action

19. The idea of a social science

20. Emotion, behavior and belief

21. Rationality and the explanation of action

22. Is a science of comparative politics possible?

23. Political and philosophical epilogue: a view of The Poverty of Liberalism by Robert Paul Wolff

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780268162344

0268162344

OCLC:

1202466528