| The Politics of Agency: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology Contributor(s): Wisnewski, J. Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138255971 ISBN-13: 9781138255975 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism |
| Dewey: 128.4 |
| Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.53 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |