Against the Self-Images of the Age
Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2018
277 pages
978-0-268-16234-4 (ISBN)
Description
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the few professional philosophers whose writings span both technical analytical philosophy and those general moral or intellectual questions that laymen often suppose to be the province of philosophy but that are seldom discussed within its bounds. The unity of this book-made up both of original and previously published pieces-lies in its attempt to expose this dichotomy and to link beliefs and moral theories with philosophical criticism. The author successively criticizes Christianity, Marxism, and psychoanalysis for their failure to express the forms of thought and action that constitute our contemporary social life, and argues that a greater understanding of our complex world will require a more thorough inquiry into the philosophy of the social sciences.
Reviews / Votes
". . . the arguments which MacIntyre advances on these topics are at once subtly conceived and persuasively expressed." -The Observer Review"The main impression left by this collection . . . is of the scope and thoroughness of Alasdair MacIntyre's interests and the admirable fertility of his mind." -Times Literary Supplement
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Language
English
Place of publication
Notre Dame IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-268-16234-4 (9780268162344)
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Person
Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University and Rev John A. O'Brien Senior Research Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, A Short History of Ethics, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE
- 1. The end of ideology and the end of the end of ideology
- 2. God and the theologians
- 3. Psychoanalysis: the future of an illusion?
- 4. The socialism of R. H. Tawney
- 5. How not to write about Lenin
- 6. How not to write about Stalin
- 7. Trotsky in exile
- 8. Marxist mask and romantic face: Lukacs on Thomas Mann
- 9. Marxism of the wilI
- 10. Pascal and Marx: On Lucien Goldmann's Hidden God
- PART TWO
- 11. Philosophy and ideology: Introduction to Part Two
- 12. What morality is not
- 13. Hume on "is" and "ought
- 14. Imperatives, reasons for action, and morals
- 15. "Ought
- 16. Some more about "ought
- 17. Pleasure as a reason for action
- 18. The antecedents of action
- 19. The idea of a social science
- 20. Emotion, behavior and belief
- 21. Rationality and the explanation of action
- 22. Is a science of comparative politics possible?
- 23. Political and philosophical epilogue: a view of The Poverty of Liberalism by Robert Paul Wolff
