The Politics of Agency : Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
ISBN-10
0754655318
ISBN-13
9780754655312
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2008
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
453 grams
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PhilosophyPolitical science & theory
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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.
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