Under Weber's shadow modernity, subjectivity and politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre /

Main Author: Breen, Keith.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10561924
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Modernity, politics and Max Weber
  • One-sided rationalization: Habermas on modernity, discourse and emancipation
  • Critiquing Habermas: intersubjectivity, ethics and norm-free sociality
  • The burden of our times: Arendt on modern oblivion and the promise of politics
  • Judging Arendt: citizenship, action and the scope of politics
  • The new dark age: MacIntyre on bureaucratic individualism and the hope for an ethical polity
  • Engaging MacIntyre: flourishing, modernity and political struggle
  • Closing reflections: ethics, politics and strategy in the present.