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part Part I: The Roots of Macintyre's Thought -- chapter 1 Re-conceiving Ethical Inquiry -- chapter 2 Philosophy and the Exigence of Praxis -- chapter 3 The Rational Resources of Christianity -- chapter 4 The Explanation of Human Action: Psychological, Social and Historical Considerations -- part Part II: The After Virtue Project -- chapter 5 The After Virtue Synthesis -- chapter 6 The Project Developed -- chapter 7 The Project Applied -- part Part III: Future Directions -- chapter 8 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Œuvre -- chapter 9 Criticisms, Internal and External.

"Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue provides the first comprehensive and detailed treatment of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. In this book Thomas D'Andrea presents an accessible critical study of the full range of MacIntyre's thought across ethical theory, psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, Marxist theory, and the philosophy of religion. Moving from the roots of MacIntyre's thought in ethical inquiry, this book examines MacIntyre's treatment of Marx, Christianity, and the nature of human action and discusses in depth the development and applications of MacIntyre's After Virtue project. The book culminates in an examination of major internal and external criticisms of MacIntyre's work and a consideration of its future directions."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Part I Politics and Economics -- 1 International Political Economy -- 2 Basic Concepts for International Political Economy -- 3 Globalization and Governance -- 4 The Political Origins of a Global Economy: Power and Markets -- Part II Contemporary Globalization -- 5 The Political Economy of Global Production and Exchange -- 6 Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality -- 7 The Political Economy of Global Finance: States, Firms, and Markets -- 8 States and the Dynamics of Global Economic Competition -- 9 Power, Wealth, and Interdependence in an Era of Advanced Globalization -- Part III Sustainability -- 10 Population, Hunger, Food, and Health -- 11 Sustainability and the Environment -- 12 Conclusion: The International Political Economy of Globalization -- Glossary -- Index

"In The Ashley Cooper Plan, Thomas Wilson connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's seventeenth-century vision of well-ordered society to the design of cities in the Province of Carolina to current debates about the relationship about climate change, sustainable development, urbanity, and the place of expertise in general. This important work focuses on the ways in which political culture, ideology, and governing structures have shaped political acts and public policy and illuminates one of the fundamental paradoxes of American history: although the Ashley Cooper Plan was a model of rational planning, its utopian qualities were soon undermined by the lure of profits to be had from slaveholding. Wilson argues that the "Gothic" framework of the Carolina "Fundamental Constitutions" was stripped of its original imperative of class reciprocity in the transition to slavery, which reverberates in American politics to this day"--

Intro -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Explanatory Notes -- Maps -- 1 The War of Independence -- 2 The Barbary Wars -- 3 The War of 1812 -- 4 The Seminole Wars -- 5 The Mexican War -- 6 The Civil War -- 7 The Indian Wars of the West -- Closing thoughts -- References -- Selected Bibliography.

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