The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1: Selected Essays, Paperback - Alasdair MacIntyre

Reducere. How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important ...

Reducere. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ...

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in cont...

Reducere. When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosoph...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

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Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

Reducere. MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods require...

Reducere. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality ...

Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence. The author extends her analytic range to cover th...

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum PressAuthor(s): Finn CollinNumber of pages: 103Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 8Cover type: Paperback / ...

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, '...

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

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The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

Daiches aims to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically bas...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...

Reducere. Included are essays in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology by one of the most important twentieth-century continental philosoph...

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte's...

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known th...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various poe...

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DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...

Reducere. First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Select...

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