The Politics of Agency

Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology

By:

J.Jeremy Wisnewski

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

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Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically obscured the normative dimension in these theories and that recognizing this normative dimension allows us to see that a pragmatic approach to theories of agency, either in social science or moral philosophy, is more appropriate. As well as offering a vigorous presentation of the pragmatic-therapeutic account of agency Wisnewski also engages critically with three rival accounts from Nietzsche, Foucault and Rorty.

Author Biography:

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hartwick College, USA.

Release date NZ

November 11th, 2016

Author

J.Jeremy Wisnewski

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

160

Series

Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

ISBN-13

9781138255975

Product ID

26585331

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