Alasdair MacIntyre

Name: Alasdair MacIntyre
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This is the first full-length account of MacIntyre's work for the social sciences. His work is shown to provide the resources for a powerful critique of liberalism and as the inspiration for a critical social science of Modernity. > 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 > \nPart I MacIntyre\u2014Christianity 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\u2019s evaluative history and Polanyi\u2019s historical sociology 4 The morality of markets and the \u2018crisis of authority\u2019: notes for a sociology in a world after virtue 5 Manags