The Politics of Agency

Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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Author: J. Jeremy Wisnewski ISBN: 9781351883870
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: December 5, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: J. Jeremy Wisnewski
ISBN: 9781351883870
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: December 5, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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