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Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre is widely recognised today as one of the most

significant philosophers working in the English-speaking world. His

intellectual impact has not been confined entirely to the world of

philosophy for, unlike many technically minded philosophers,

MacIntyre has avoided separating the issues of both general

philosophy and moral philosophy from the social and historical

context in which they are embedded.

This study seeks to set before a largely non-philosophically

minded social science readership something of the social and

cultural significance of MacIntyre’s work. It does this by first

outlining the main political and cultural influences that have shaped

the outlook of MacIntyre’s writing. The most important of these

influences are undoubtedly, on the one hand, Christianity and, on

the other, the Marxist tradition, as well as the broad intellectual

inheritance of the classical world. This book argues that it is out of

these traditions that MacIntyre has produced his radically

distinctive critique of contemporary liberal societies. The book then

examines the significance for the social sciences of MacIntyre’s

elaboration and restatement of an Aristotelian critique of the moral

culture of modernity. MacIntyre’s work is shown to be deeply

connected to the historical narrative of social change presented by

Karl Polanyi, and this work is shown to be more plausible than

some contemporary critics would allow. MacIntyre’s

characterisation of modernity, as being based around an unfounded

managerialist culture and a rhetorically emotivist moral discourse,

is seen to reveal the potential of a critical social science based on

Aristotelian moral categories.

Peter McMylor lectures in Sociology at the University of

Manchester.

Alasdair MacIntyre

Critic of modernity

Peter McMylor

London and New York

First published 1994

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the

British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McMylor, Peter, 1958-

Alasdair MacIntyre: critic of modernity/Peter McMylor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. MacIntyre, Alasdair C.–Contributions in philosophy

and social sciences. 2. Philosophy and social sciences.

I. Title.

B1647.M124M38 1993

192

dc20 93–3490

CIP

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ISBN 0-203-99103-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-415-04426-X (Print Edition)

0-415-04427-8 (pbk)

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