The Politics of Agency

Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology

J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25597-5 (ISBN)

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Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically obscured the normative dimension in these theories and that recognizing this normative dimension allows us to see that a pragmatic approach to theories of agency, either in social science or moral philosophy, is more appropriate. As well as offering a vigorous presentation of the pragmatic-therapeutic account of agency Wisnewski also engages critically with three rival accounts from Nietzsche, Foucault and Rorty.

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hartwick College, USA.

Contents: Preface; Assertions, clarifications and recommendations: outline of an approach to theories of human agency; The nature of human agency: the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism; Constitutive rules and critical theory; Returning to the argument: atomism, holism and the social conditions of agency; Theory and the trouble with agency; Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-25597-1 / 1138255971
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25597-5 / 9781138255975
Zustand	Neuware