Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism

380 Pages·2011·8.739 MB·English

by  Paul Blackledge (editor), Kelvin Knight (editor)

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Virtue and Politics
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PAUL BLACKLEDGE AND KELVIN KNIGHT
editors
Virtue Politics
and
Alasdair MacIntyre’s
Revolutionary Aristotelianism
    
 , 
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Virtue and politics : Alasdair MacIntyre’s revolutionary Aristotelianism /
edited by Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-02225-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-268-02225-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 2. Marxism. 3. Liberalism.
I. Blackledge, Paul, 1967– II. Knight, Kelvin.
JC257.M23V57 2011
321.9'2—dc22
2010052715
∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence
and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines
for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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In memoriam
Chris Harman, 1942–2009
Émile Perreau-Saussine, 1972–2010
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Contents
List of Contributors xi
Introduction: Towards a Virtuous Politics 1
Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight
1
How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary:
Ethics, Resistance, and Utopia 11
Alasdair MacIntyre
2
Revolutionary Aristotelianism 20
Kelvin Knight
3
Revolutionary Aristotelianism? The Political Thought
of Aristotle, Marx, and MacIntyre 35
Tony Burns
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4
Two Cheers for Enlightenment Universalism:
Or, Why It’s Hard to Be an Aristotelian Revolutionary 54
Alex Callinicos
5
MacIntyre and Modernity 79
Sean Sayers
6
Alienation, Practices, and Human Nature: Marxist Critique
in MacIntyre’s Aristotelian Ethics 97
Niko Noponen
7
Leadership or Management: Some Comments on
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Critique of Marx(ism) 112
Paul Blackledge
8
The Moral Critique of Stalinism 134
Émile Perreau-Saussine
9
Alasdair MacIntyre and Trotskyism 152
Neil Davidson
10
MacIntyre and the Subversion of Natural Law 177
Sante Maletta
11
Troubling Oneself with Ends 195
Anton Leist
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Contents ix
12
Compartmentalisation and Social Roles:
MacIntyre’s Critical Theory of Modernity 228
Peter McMylor
13
Virtue, Politics, and History: Rival Enquiries
into Action and Order 241
Kelvin Knight
14
Alasdair MacIntyre and the Lithuanian New Left 290
Andrius Bielskis
15
Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We Need to Be 307
Alasdair MacIntyre
Bibliography 335
Index 361