Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the demise of naturalism : reunifying political theory and social science /

Blakely argues that the resources for overcoming the divide between the empirical and the normative of society are available in the intellectual developments of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blakely, Jason, 1980- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1228113
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of superstition and the divorce of political theory from social science
  • The deeper sources of the breakup: the rise of "naturalism" in philosophy, social science, and politics
  • The first British new left's rebellion against naturalism
  • Analytic philosophy as a weapon for attacking naturalism
  • Inspiring a new social science: Aristotle and Heidegger
  • Overcoming value-neutrality in the social sciences
  • The great reunification: an antinaturalist social science
  • Future projects and a renewed humanism.