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Autore |
McMylor Peter <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Alasdair MacIntyre : critic of modernity / / Peter McMylor |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-95014-4 |
0-415-04427-8 |
1-134-95015-2 |
1-280-13863-7 |
0-203-99103-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilization, Modern |
Philosophy and social sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-220) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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