The Macintyre Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 026801437X ISBN 13 : 9780268014377

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kelvin Knight is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of North London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026801437X
• ISBN 13: 9780268014377
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Knight Kelvin
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