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The Politics of Agency - J. Jeremy Wisnewski

The Politics of Agency

Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology
Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-5531-2 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
Argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically obscured the normative dimension in various 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.
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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.4.2008
Reihe/Serie Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7546-5531-8 / 0754655318
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5531-2 / 9780754655312
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