The politics of agency
Subtitle: towards a pragmatic approach to philosophical anthropology
By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780754655312
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Agent (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: Assertions, clarifications, and recommendations : outline of an approach to theories of human agency; title: The questions of a philosophical anthropology; title: An analytic vocabulary for addressing the questions; title: Hermeneutic projection of an answer to the questions; title: The nature of human agency : the competing recommendations of humanism and naturalism; title: Constitutive values and the modern self : Taylorian strong evaluations; title: Two attempts at justification : Taylor and Korsgaard; title: Some standard objections to naturalism; title: A non-standard argument : naturalism and normativity; title: Status of the arguments; title: Constitutive rules and critical theory; title: Some introductory remarks; title: Constitutive rules and social ontology : some reminders; title: The significance of illusion : the success term approach; title: An alternative critical approach : rules as recommendations; title: Returning to the argument : atomism, holism, and the social conditions of agency; title: Two competing notions of the self; title: Requirements for agency; title: The limits of social construction; title: Some signposting; title: Theory and the trouble with agency; title: The aims and scope of theory : cashing out understanding; title: Social loops and theories of agency; title: A therapeutic-pragmatic suggestion; title: Toward a pragmatic-therapeutic approach to human agency; title: Truth and therapy : the peculiar epistemic status of theories of agency revisited; title: Nietzsche's healthy kultur : an individuals attempt at world-transformation; title: Foucault's ironic ethics; title: Rorty revisited : public action and private reaction.