02674oam 2200505I 450 991015460280332120230808200726.01-315-23771-710.4324/9781315237718 (CKB)3710000000965910(MiAaPQ)EBC4758440(OCoLC)965444104(BIP)59826348(BIP)13099132(EXLCZ)99371000000096591020180706e20162008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe politics of agency towards a pragmatic approach to philosophical anthropology /J. Jeremy WisnewskiLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (162 pages) illustrations, tablesAshgate New Critical Thinking in PhilosophyFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-5531-8 1-351-88388-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Assertions, clarifications, and recommendations : outline of an approach to theories of human agency -- 2. The nature of human agency : the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism -- 3. Constitutive rules and critical theory -- 4. Returning to the argument : atomism, holism, and the social conditions of agency -- 5. Theory and the trouble with agency -- 6. Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency.Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically obscured the normative dimension in these theories and that recognizing this normative dimension allows us to see that a pragmatic approach to theories of agency, either in social science or moral philosophy, is more appropriate. As well as offering a vigorous presentation of the pragmatic-therapeutic account of agency Wisnewski also engages critically with three rival accounts from Nietzsche, Foucault and Rorty.Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.Philosophical anthropologyAgent (Philosophy)Philosophical anthropology.Agent (Philosophy)128.4Wisnewski Jeremy.846567MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154602803321The politics of agency2055228UNINA