Macintyre: 124 books
Kierkegaard After MacIntyre
Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In his extraordinarily influential book on ethics, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre maintained that Kierkegaard's notion of "choosing" to interpret one's choices in ethical terms implies an arbitrary and irrational leap. MacIntyre's critique of Kierkegaard has become the focal point for...
God, Philosophy, Universities
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
"What does it mean to be a human being?" Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
Een spion onder vrienden
Kim Philby, de grootste dubbelagent aller tijden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Met een nawoord van John le Carré Kim Philby, een van de grootste dubbelspionnen aller tijden: een briljante en charmante man, die tijdens de Koude Oorlog de Britse antispionage tegen de Sovjet-Unie leidde. Ondertussen werkte hij echter heimelijk voor de Russische geheime dienst. Niemand vermoedde...
Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, two thrilling accounts of World War II espionage, are available together as an ebook—with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Double Cross.
AGENT ZIGZAG • “Wildly improbably but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller...
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1994
MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability,' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what...
Operatie mincemeat
hoe tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een lijk de Duitsers om de tuin leidde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Een briljante misleidingsoperatie die het verloop van de oorlog DRASTISCH veranderde Op 30 april 1943 ziet een visser vlak voor de Spaanse kust een lijk drijven. Eenmaal aan land gebracht wordt het lichaam geïdentificeerd als de Britse officier William Martin van de Royal Marines. Een leren aktetas...
by Ben Macintyre
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2012
HET WARE OORLOGSVERHAAL VAN EDDIE CHAPMAN: SPION, VERRADER, MINNAAR, BEDRIEGER Op een decembernacht in 1942 landt een nazi-parachutist op een Engelse akker. Zijn missie: het saboteren van de Britse oorlogsinspanning. Zijn naam: Eddie Chapman, een Engelse crimineel die zijn diensten heef aangeboden...
SAS: helden en schurken
Hoe de speciale Britse eenheid de nazi's saboteerde en de uitkomst van de oorlog bepaalde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Met nooit eerder gepubliceerd materiaal. Voor het eerst wordt het ware verhaal verteld achter de geheime eenheid van de SAS die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog undercover ging bij de vijand
Een verhaal over echte helden, achtervolgingen, spionage en explosies
In de zomer van 1941, op...
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly...
A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
Causeway
A Passage from Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Causeway is Linden MacIntyre’s evocative memoir of his Cape Breton childhood. At once a vibrant coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life and a reflection on fathers and sons, the narrative revolves around the construction of the Canso Causeway that would link the small Cape Breton...
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire...
After Virtue
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the...
A Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the...