Hegel and MacIntyre
Description
Hegel and MacIntyre: Reason in History brings the work of foremost Anglophone moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre into dialogue with G. W. F. Hegel-two rationalist historicists whose affinities and tensions have often been noted, yet never before explored at book-length. The contributions in this collection, by leading Hegel and MacIntyre scholars and critical theorists, examine a wide range of questions about moral life under conditions of late-capitalist modernity.
Part I addresses (meta)ethical questions about the foundations of normativity, the scope of justice, the metaphysics of the self, and how ethical concepts acquire determinacy. Part II addresses questions about the politics of small communities, democratic life-forms, and the tensions between modern institutions and virtue-enabling social practices. Part III traces MacIntyre's engagement with Hegel (and Marx) historically, from his British New Left beginning to his final writings.
Together, these articles show how philosophy can orient us in the conflicts of modernity. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of MacIntyre and Hegel, but also to all who work in modern moral, social, and political thought, especially Marxism, neo-Aristotelianism, and Thomism.
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Persons
Michael Lazarus is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx (2025) and many articles and essays at the intersection of normative social theory and the critique of political economy.
Caleb Bernacchio is the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics, Associate Professor of Management & Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His research focuses on the intersection of organization theory and neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy. He has published widely on aspects of Alasdair MacIntyre's work as well on themes from Hegel's practical philosophy. He is the author of Human Flourishing and the Firm (2026). His work has also been published in a range of journals including Academy of Management Review, Acta Philosophica, Business Ethics: A European Review; Business Ethics Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Philosophy of Management, and Rethinking Marxism.
Ahmad Fattah was until recently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously a visiting Graduate Student Researcher in the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has a BA Degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA Degree from the University of Liverpool. He received his MA and PhD Degrees, in Philosophy, from the University of Sheffield, advised by Robert Stern.
David Kretz is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities Program at Yale University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he studied philosophy, intellectual history, and literature in Paris, Berlin, and his hometown Vienna.
Content
Introduction. Section One 1. Self-Knowledge and Human Life 2. Between Sartre and Goffman: Alasdair MacIntyre and Hegel's Theory of the Self 3. After Determinate Content: Reading MacIntyre as an Inferentialist Section Two 4. Found or sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues 5. Saving the Enlightenment from Itself: Hegel versus MacIntyre on Teleology and Right 6. Thomistic Aristotelians on the Sociality of Reason 7. Deweyan Democracy as a Way of Life: Pragmatist possibilities for MacIntyre Section Three 8. Freedom and Rational Agency in the Young MacIntyre 9. Alasdair MacIntyre: Under the Shadow of Hegel 10. From Freedom to Final End: MacIntyre's Hegelian Aristotle