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Author MacIntyre, Alasdair

Title Against the Self-Images of the Age Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
Published Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (295 p.)
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
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
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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Philosophy.
Ideology.
Philosophy
philosophy.
ideology.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
Ideology
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0268162344
9780268162344