ISBN:
9781000391923
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Ser.
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DDC:
142
Keywords:
Critical theory
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Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Notes on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Moral Flexibility -- Grosse Pointe Blank -- Thank You For Smoking -- Authoritarianism -- Oppression and Birth -- Critical Theory -- Birth Outcomes in the U.S. -- Children of the Future -- A Return to MacIntyre -- Overview of Argument -- SECTION I: Alienation and Revolutionary Aristotelianism -- 1. Marx's Theory of Alienation -- Introduction -- Alienation -- Our Marx and Theirs -- Saleability -- Private Property -- Labor -- Social Nature of Human Beings -- Historical Development of Desires -- Transcendence -- The Need for Other Human Beings -- Conclusion -- 2. Macintyre's Interpretation of Alienation -- Introduction -- Macintyre's Early Marxism -- Marxism: An Interpretation -- "Notes From the Moral Wilderness" -- Emotivism as Alienation -- Our MacIntyre and Theirs -- Understanding Emotivism -- Emotivism and the Culture of Manipulation -- Linguistic Expression over Love -- Alienation as the Key to Modernity -- Conclusion -- 3. Revolutionary Aristotelianism -- Introduction -- Practices -- Human Action and Ends -- The Nature of Practices -- Internal Goods and Cooking -- Types of Internal Goods -- Institutions -- Practices as an Answer to Alienation -- Narrative Unity of Life and Traditions -- Narrative Unity of Life and Intentions -- Narratives as Quests -- My Narrative and Yours -- Narratives as an Answer to Alienation -- Tradition -- Traditions as Resistance to Alienation -- Conclusion -- SECTION II: Lacunae -- 4. Human Nature, Reason, and Love -- Introduction -- Moral Rules and Community -- The Place of Moral Rules -- Practices and Freedom -- On the Absence of Human Nature -- Problems with Aristotle's Hylomorphic Metaphysical Biology.
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