The politics of agency : towards a pragmatic approach to philosophical anthropology /

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Author / Creator:Wisnewski, Jeremy.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2008.
Description:xii, 147 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7187484
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ISBN:9780754655312 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0754655318 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.

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505 0 |a Assertions, clarifications, and recommendations : outline of an approach to theories of human agency -- The questions of a philosophical anthropology -- An analytic vocabulary for addressing the questions -- Hermeneutic projection of an answer to the questions -- The nature of human agency : the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism -- Constitutive values and the modern self : Taylorian strong evaluations -- Two attempts at justification : Taylor and Korsgaard -- Some standard objections to naturalism -- A non-standard argument : naturalism and normativity -- Status of the arguments -- Constitutive rules and critical theory -- Some introductory remarks -- Constitutive rules and social ontology : some reminders -- The significance of illusion : the success term approach -- An alternative critical approach : rules as recommendations -- Returning to the argument : atomism, holism, and the social conditions of agency -- Two competing notions of the self -- Requirements for agency -- The limits of social construction -- Some signposting -- Theory and the trouble with agency -- The aims and scope of theory : cashing out understanding -- Social loops and theories of agency -- A therapeutic-pragmatic suggestion -- Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency -- Truth and therapy : the peculiar epistemic status of theories of agency revisited -- Nietzsche's healthy kultur : an individuals attempt at world-transformation -- Foucault's ironic ethics -- Rorty revisited : public action and private reaction. 
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