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245 14 a| The politics of agency :b| towards a pragmatic approach to philosophical anthropology /c| J. Jeremy Wisnewski.;

300 a| xii, 147 pages ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.;

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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The politics of agency : towards a pragmatic approach to philosophical anthropology / J. Jeremy Wisnewski.

Author/creator	Wisnewski, Jeremy
Format	Book
Publication Info	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., ©2008.
Description	xii, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Philosophical anthropology. Agent (Philosophy)

Series	Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. ^A512939
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.
LCCN	2007029150
ISBN	9780754655312 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0754655318 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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