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Books and journals on topics related to ISME’s interests.
Ethics Under Capital:
MacIntyre, Communication, and the Culture Wars
Jason Hannan
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Over thirty years ago, Alasdair MacIntyre predicted the coming of a new Dark Ages. In Ethics Under Capital Jason Hannan argues that MacIntyre was right all along. He presents MacIntyre’s diagnosis of our cultural crisis and his answer to the challenge of public reasoning without foundations. Pitting him against John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Chantal Mouffe, Ethics Under Capital argues that MacIntyre offers hope for a critical democratic politics in the face of the culture wars.
Marxism, Ethics, and Politics:
The Work of Alasdair MacIntyre
John Gregson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
John Gregson examines Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present, highlighting MacIntyre’s continuing admiration for much in Marx’s thought while noting that his contemporary project is developed in response to what he now sees as the inadequacies of Marxism, particularly Marxist politics.
Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View
Rob Compaijen
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Rob Compaijen puts Søren Kierkegaard in dialogue with Alasdair MacIntyre and Bernard Williams on the nature of practical reason. He defends Kierkegaard from the charge of irrationality and argues that Kierkegaard remains an important source of insight on the nature of the ethical life and the life of faith.
Alasdair MacIntyre, Rationality and Education
Steven Stolz
Springer, 2018
Steven Stolz provides a critical examination of MacIntyre’s thought as it relates to education. What are the pedagogical implications of MacIntyre’s conception of rationality and rational enquiry?
Virtue at Work:
Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations
Geoff Moore
Oxford University Press, 2017
Drawing on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Virtue at Work provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework for organizational ethics from the perspective of practitioners in the workplace, from the perspective of managers in organizations, as well as from the perspective of organizations themselves.
