Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity

by Peter McMylor

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415044264
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/04/1993
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter McMylor

Table of Contents

Part I MacIntyre—Christianity and/or Marxism? 1 Christianity and Marxism: acceptance and Rejection 2 An excursus on the possibility of an Aristotelian Marxism Part II Markets, managers and the virtues 3 MacIntyre’s evaluative history and Polanyi’s historical sociology 4 The morality of markets and the ‘crisis of authority’: notes for a sociology in a world after virtue 5 Managerialism and the culture of bureaucratic individualism 6 Conclusion: narrative and communities