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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
MacIntyre 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. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Ideology.
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Ideology. |
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philosophy. |
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ideology. |
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PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: MacIntyre, Alasdair Against the Self-Images of the Age : Essays on Ideology and Philosophy Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press,c2018 |
| ISBN |
0268162344 |
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9780268162344 (electronic book) |
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